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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unless there is a marked reversal of trend," said Dr. Thomas Parran, head of the U. S. Public Health Service last week, "the mortality rate from all causes of death during the current year will be the lowest on record, with the possible exception of 1933." During the first six months of 1938, he added, the death rate was 10.8 per 1,000 a figure surpassed only by the 10.7 rate for the entire year of 1933. Some 60% of the total 1938 decline was due to the remarkably small death toll of pneumonia and influenza last winter. Other factors...
...York Herald Tribune's eighth annual Forum on Current Problems. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn (Little Women, Little Minister, Alice Adams, Mary of Scotland, Quality Street), attacked the cinema industry for its ostrich attitude: ". . . Let a movie try to depict situations in which we are all involved now; let a movie try to wake people up to their own plight . . . ; let a movie try to present a moral, economic or political problem of today honestly and simply, and they are advised to hear nothing, say nothing, do nothing...
...animal is placed inside a big squirrel cage which revolves when the creature runs. A faint musical tone sounds, followed after a short interval by a mild electric shock administered through the bars of the cage. If the animal runs the turning of the cage switches off the current, thus sparing the subject further shock. After a few experiences the dog, cat or guinea pig learns to avoid shock by running the moment it hears the musical signal. When this conditioned response is set up Dr. Culler can easily find the threshold of hearing by steadily diminishing the loudness...
...wage cut would not meet the emergency since the savings would not go merely to the needy roads; 3) a wage cut would run counter to the present trend of U. S. wages; 4) the railroads' distress since October 1937 is still a short-term situation which the current improvement in business may correct; 5) therefore, the roads should drop the whole idea...
...reigns that extraordinary specimen of balanced brain, brawn, and emotion known as the "normal youth"; there doctors solicitously question him in efforts to learn why he is. But in the rear of the Dunster Court, the Harvard Dramatic Society will pursue its unpublicized course, considerably out of the main current of undergraduate activities, but nevertheless serving a valuable purpose in the limited circle for which it is organized...