Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are, however, other incidental expenses involved in education, expenses for such purposes as the transportation of children to & from school, the purchase of non-religious textbooks and the provision of health aids." The Cardinal thought that Catholic pupils were entitled to such "auxiliary services," just as they were already entitled to free lunches under the School Lunch Act. Said the Cardinal...
...since mid-1948 to nearly 32,000 survivors of miners who died or were killed (an average of $174 per beneficiary). Another $64 million went into disability and assistance grants, $30 million for the miners' $100-a-month pension program, and $5,000,000 for health and medical services...
Opposing batteries have plenty of respect at all times for Luke, who led the American League's hitters in 1936 and 1943, has a lifetime batting average of 312. But they are wariest when he complains loudest about his health, for it is a long-established fact that he plays best when he feels worst...
Many sections of the nation reported the number of polio victims rising rapidly. The U.S. Public Health Service (which tabulates its annual statistics from the third week of March, when cases are fewest) listed a total of 5,415 in the current "polio year," against 4,230 in the same period of 1948. But P.H.S. still insisted that the disease was epidemic only in some areas-Arkansas, Indiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Southern California...
...Federal Government is preparing to pay out a record $70 million in laboratory fees for medical research in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950. Under the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Institutes of Health hold the strings on the fattest purse, over $46 million, up 25% over last year. Funds for work on heart disease show the biggest jump, from less than...