Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government, said Taft, had an obligation to help those who simply could not help themselves. On that principle he estimated the Taft program for housing, health, education and relief would cost only $1 billion a year; in contrast, he figured, the Fair Deal line which Harry Truman was peddling would cost the country $14 billion a year...
...human components of its structure. It warned the nation's steelmakers that excessive profits from production should be equitably shared through lower prices. At the same time, it sounded an implicit warning to labor that benefits cannot be won at the expense of industry's good health. In other words, the board seemed to be saying that labor's old war cry, "We want more," could lead sooner or later to mutual extermination. U.S. labor could not afford to kill the goose that lays the golden...
Last week, despairing of a legislative remedy, the U.S. Public Health Service turned to the next best thing: a nationwide educational program to encourage housewives to ask the grocer for iodized salt. When Ohio's Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton introduced a compulsory iodization bill, the Salt Producers' Association opposed it, protesting that it was medication by legislation. But the producers have assured Mrs. Bolton and PHS that they will use their advertising and publicity programs to promote the use of iodized salt. Mrs. Bolton, whose 22nd Ohio District is in the goiter belt, had taken up the campaign...
...Public Health Reports, Dr. William H. Sebrell outlined the campaign's goal: not only to prevent goiter, but to spread the word that iodine is essential to bodily health. The thyroid gland takes up iodine from the bloodstream and uses it to form a hormone, thyroxine. In turn, thyroxine regulates many body functions, including heat production, brain development, sexual maturity, and the growth of hair, skin and bones. A shortage of such an element as iodine, said Dr. Sebrell, may not be indicated dramatically by serious illness: "Just as often, or oftener, the result may be lowered efficiency, nervousness...
...fitted with new shoes-unless they are taken to a store where they can look at their toes in an X-ray fitting machine. Then it's fun. But last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Charles R. Williams of the Harvard School of Public Health warned about the harm that this type of fun might cause, through overexposure to X rays...