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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief of the Central Statistical Administration of the National Economy Sautin: "A continuous growth of population is a law of socialism." Non-socialists guessed that sex laxness, the anti-abortion law, influx of peasants "running after their bread" and seeking work accounted for the urban gains which were the greatest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Census | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...only reason that so much of the world's hard-earned wealth is poured down an uneconomic rathole is that men expect and fear the coming of a Second World War. That expectation and fear is the greatest political force in the world today. Horror of the war itself makes mankind recoil towards peace, but the probable nature of the war and the fear of its outcome drive men to prepare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: War Machines | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...know, I'd like to see the king and queen of one of the world's greatest democracies . . . and I might be able to get a word in edgewise about Wisconsin cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Poor Julius | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Service recently surveyed the health needs of 22,-000,000 rural dwellers in 1,340 scattered counties, it found that 55% of the counties, with a total population of 8,000,000, had no hospitals. Most of the hospitals in the remaining 45% were small, ill-equipped, seldom used. Greatest hospital need is in rural areas of the 14 Southern States, which have an average of one general hospital bed for every 1,000 citizens. (General U. S. average: 3.3 beds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Country Care | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...oxygen tent, inoculated him with pneumonia serum, fed him the famed pneumonia specific, sulfapyridine. Mercy Hospital's Patient No. 1939-2468 was a very special case: he was the junior partner of America's most famous medical team-Dr. Charles Horace Mayo. As it does with the greatest efficiency for 80,000 patients a year in the great Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., medical science did all it could for 73-year-old Dr. Mayo, who had been suddenly stricken while traveling in the Middle West. But his was a hopeless case. Few days later he was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor Charlie | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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