Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people want constructive action coupled with campaign promises. In the personality and record of Hubert H. Humphrey the people of Minnesota saw the dynamo of action needed for the fulfilling of their dream-the human-welfare state . . . They wanted a clean-up on the housing mess, the health problem, the tax situation, the labor snarl and half a dozen other national stumbling blocks...
...candles on their red altars for ceremonial offerings to the gods. Barbershops were doing a rush business, and fortune tellers were so sought after that they made appointments days in advance. Nanking's miserable colony of refugees from Communist areas was sprinkled with red paper signs asking health & wealth from the gods. An old man who had fled Suchow three months ago tapped tobacco from some cigarette butts into his pipe and said: "At home in Suchow I would be burning incense to the gods. Now look...
...called a conference in Washington of sanitary engineers and sewage and water supply experts from all over the U.S. There is no reason to get panicky, the AEC said in its best scientific manner, but the U.S. must realize that the use of radioactive substances is increasing rapidly. Public health authorities must familiarize themselves with radioactivity as a regular problem. In the curriculum of the atomic age, said AEC Chairman David E. Lilienthal, radiation "has become a kind of fourth...
...Leland S. McKittrick charged yesterday that compulsory national health insurance would place the emphasis on quantity, not on quality, of medical service and would require the federal treasury to become a bottomless...
...Leland S. McKittrick, clinical professor of surgery, will attack compulsory government health insurance at a meeting of the Women's Club of Boston at 11 a.m. this morning...