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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Round. Vaccination against flu, doctors agree, cannot do anybody much harm. But does it do any good? It worked during the flu epidemics of 1943 and 1945. But it was a flop in 1947, according to a study of students at the University of Chicago. Combined influenza A and B virus vaccine was injected into 790 students; another 1,230 students were not vaccinated. During the epidemic, exactly the same percentage of each group (9.5%) came down with flu. Severity of the attack was about the same in each group; 2.5% of the vaccinated and 2.26% of the unvaccinated were...
...congressional spy investigations as a "red herring to keep from doing what they ought to do." The investigations had produced no evidence not long known to the FBI and a federal grand jury, he added, and they served no useful purpose. "On the contrary, they are doing irreparable harm to certain persons, seriously impairing the morale of federal employees, and undermining public confidence in the Government...
...lawyer had pleaded that he was "a fanatic . . . doing what he thought best for his country." Said Federal Judge Francis J. W. Ford, who had taken more than two months to mull over the evidence: "A fanatic can do as much harm to his country as any other person...
...Black Day." As the news reached Europe, the Communist press broke out in jubilant headlines. Pro-U.S. papers were badly shaken. Wrote Rome's Il Tempo: "Whatever happens in the Senate, the harm has been done . . . Europe will live in perpetual fear that from one moment to the next America will ship her oars...
Friendly Erosion. Erosion is another menace that Dr. Kellogg thinks has been oversold. Some soils erode badly, he says, but others do not, even on steep, long-cultivated slopes. Great gullies cutting through a field destroy its value, but gradual erosion does little harm and may even be beneficial. When the topsoil washes gradually away, the subsoil may turn into topsoil with renewed fertility. "Much [erosion]," says Dr. Kellogg, "is a perfectly normal concomitant of mountain building and wearing down ... An important part is essential to the formation of productive soils. One cannot, or should not, try to stop erosion...