Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conclusion that the public is far too jittery about the atom bomb. Said Colonel James P. Cooney of the Army Medical Corps : "If a bomb were dropped on one of our cities tomorrow, mass hysteria would probably cause the unnecessary loss of many lives." In soothing vein, the Surgeon General's office this week issued a statement with a cheery title: "Army Doctors Say Hysteria Need Not Follow Atom-Bomb Explosion." Some of its reassuring points...
...Sensational prophecies" have insisted that the effects of radiation (on the heredity carriers called genes) would produce a race of monsters. Nothing to worry about there, said the Surgeon General's office. The Army Medical Corps is confident that since irradiation is usually fatal to developing embryos, "the result . . . would probably be a higher rate of abortion and miscarriage...
Next problem was to find a human to check the experiment on. The parasite that causes monkey malaria (Plasmodium cynomolgi) is like the parasite that causes most human malaria (Plasmodlum vivax"). He found a mental patient who was about to be given malaria anyway for treatment of general paralysis. The patient and his wife agreed that doctors could take out a small piece of his liver by a minor operation, seven days after he had been bitten by infected mosquitoes. At 5 o'clock one morning Dr. Shortt got the sliver of liver, rushed to his laboratory and worked...
...climax to all this redesigning at Ford will come in June. Then the 1949 Ford will be put on view. Automen guessed it would have wide, sweeping lines similar to the Lincoln. When it is ready, Ford will once again be able to give General Motors and Chrysler a race in each of the four big price classes...
Wilted Flour. General Mills' plant in Buffalo, world's largest flour milling plant, shut down because of a slump in demand, was scheduled to resume this week at only 50% of capacity. The slump, which has slowed many other mills, was blamed on 1) Government red tape, which has slowed up export licenses, and 2) high prices...