Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked in steel, automobiles, rubber, etc., management paid all the costs. "Employe representatives" did good work for group health programs, plant safety, sports, etc. but rarely went to bat on basic questions of wages or hours. This saved employers trouble but it was not a cheap form of insurance. Even in companies (Bethlehem included) where E. R. P. worked best, it cost employers time and money to keep it going...
...Every biologist," he says, "knows that his science-the life-sciences-can extend the mental horizon, give better health, improve the economic status and promote the social understanding of any people or nation that will teach the subject adequately to its youth. The peoples of India or China are restrained far more by ignorance of simple biological truth than by unfamiliarity with letters, arithmetic or the rules of trade...
...order to meet an increasing demand for dental officers in departments of public health, the Dental School has organized a new graduate field of study in "Public Health Dentistry," Leroy M. S. Miner, Dean of the Dental School, said yesterday in his annual report...
With both surgery and music out of his reach, he got jobs in public-health departments, began his intensive collection of experience. In Seattle and San Francisco, he helped many prostitutes who wanted to go home and resume respectability. Samaritan Taylor had a friendly department-store owner write each girl's family that she had been employed in his store, was ill, needed rest. Families sent fares, brought their wayward daughters home, learned no distasteful truth...
...time to write about things that intrigued me most. Now that time has come. I've retired as Nature's editor but I have ambitious plans ahead. I'm just 74. My mother lived to be 90 and my father to 84, and, with good health now, I'm not planning to quit...