Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then what man will be able to sit under his peng on a warm summer day and study the gentle undulations of fins and tails? The very thought of these beautiful water creatures turning on their backs and floating to the surface fills my heart with deepest gloom." The health department yielded. The air-spray project, it announced, would be postponed until next year. By then Peiping's fish contemplators would be instructed how best to cover their pools during the spraying...
Once a fiery advocate of Puerto Rican independence, Munoz now believes that both independence and statehood are best forgotten while the island builds up its economic health. His platform: industrialization, expansion of the social legislation which he wrote in the days before Governor Rexford G. Tugwell* arrived, a new Pureto Rican constitution by revision or replacement of the present Organic Act-to provide that no changes shall be made in Puerto Rico's governmental system without consulting the islanders...
During the wartime food shortage, researchers noticed a curious thing about the health of chickens. Well-housed chickens, deprived of animal-protein foods, began to droop and look sickly. Chickens living in dirty, littered henhouses did all right, even on a poor diet; but when the henhouse litter was cleaned up, they began to droop too. This was especially interesting to six Lederle Laboratories researchers who guessed that something in the chicken litter was supplying some mysterious factor the chickens needed...
...medical men were busily speculating. One who knows for sure who the winners will be is Mrs. Mary Lasker, vice president and dynamo behind the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Mrs. Lasker puts up the cash, but the winners are picked by three organizations: the American Public Health Association, the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, the Planned Parenthood Federation...
...psychiatrists have offered their services to the world's politicians. Last week in London the psychiatrists, psychologists and educators attending the International Congress on Mental Health (TIME, Aug. 23) got around to the vexing subject of "world citizenship and group relations."* Unless war is prevented, Cornell University Psychiatrist Carl Binger told the delegates, "there will not be any world to be citizens...