Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fair, one of the nation's leading public health experts, was awarded the Legion of Merit last Friday for his work during the war on the National Research Council. He organized the engineering division of the Office of Sanitation at the beginning...
Fair has served as scientific director of the international health division of the Rockefeller Foundation, and is a member of the National Advisory Health Council of the U.S. Public Health Service...
...confidence in the U.S., born of the harvest and nurtured with the sweat of work, that matched the weather and the scene. At Amsterdam's first Assembly of the World Council of Churches (TIME, Sept. 13), Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr had gloomily commented: "There is so little health in the whole of our modern civilization that one cannot find the island of order from which to proceed against disorder...
...people who do good work in public health get little publicity and very few pats on the back. The annual Lasker Awards, among the top honors in world medicine, give them some of each. Individual winners also get $1,000 and a gold copy of the Winged Victory. The 1948 winners, announced this week...
...Rolla E. Dyer, 62, director of the National Institute of Health, for his research in microbiology and for administration of U.S. Public Health Service research funds...