Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary was polite and cautious, but in his own conservative way he did not disappoint them. He had high praise for previous cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America in joint cultural, educational and health projects. When he came to the future, he dotted no i's, crossed no t's, but he did make a firm commitment. Said Acheson: "Almost every kind of project contemplated in the worldwide program [of help to undeveloped areas] has been developed and tested in cooperative [InterAmerican] programs . . . Present plans include a substantial expansion of these joint activities in this hemisphere...
...Restraint. To encourage good work by attendants, the National Mental Health Foundation last year began naming a "Psychiatric Aide of the Year." This week the 1948 award ($500 and a citation) went to Milwaukee's Brand. Chief reason why he was picked by a board of judges that included Author Mary Jane Ward (The Snake Pit): he has stopped using "restraint" (hospital lingo for straitjackets, "camisoles," belts, wristcuffs, etc.). In his ward, Brand has been trying kindness and reasonableness instead...
...many new wonder drugs were hiding in many other unlikely places. Dr. John Robert Brown, of the University of Texas Medical Branch, has reported (in Texas Reports on Biology and Medicine) that he has extracted an antibiotic (thus far unproved) from ragweed. Last week, at a National Institute of Health symposium in Washington, new germ killers were reported from other strange sources...
Last year the radio industry took in more money and boasted more stations than ever before in history. But this look of ruddy health was a sorry illusion. Actually, radio's pulse was irregular and feeble; it was seeing TV spots before its eyes...
...Veronica Tisza, director of the Annex health Center, said Saturday that the Center held no objections to 'Cliffe participation in the PBH drive. In a misunderstanding, betty K. Heaton '51 of the Community Service Committee had previously announced that the Health Center forbade any "Cliffe donations...