Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roller Derby by one lap. Roller Derbies are patterned roughly after six-day bicycle races. Contestants, male & female, sleep in full view of the spectators and each other on cots in the centre of the rink. They eat six meals and take three urine tests a day to satisfy health officials that they are not too exhausted. Their skates, provided free, have maple wheels- By last week, the Roller Derby's repair shop had rounded 1,400 flat wheels. During the race, "jams" & sprints for small prizes are encouraged. When a contestant is injured a siren stops...
...stood by the grave, watched its concrete top cracked away, the plain coffin exhumed. Because there was no longer any danger of spreading Bacillus leprae, no need existed to sterilize Father Damien's mouldering bones and dust, according to President Frederick E. Trotter of the Honolulu Board of Health. In an undersized, zinc-lined coffin of koa wood, the remains were flown back to Honolulu, where they lay in state. Aboard the U. S. Army transport Republic, the coffin was to be carried to Cristobal, C. Z., transferred to the Belgian schoolship Mercator, taken on to Antwerp. In Belgium...
...public health expert, Dr. Emery Roe Hayhurst of Columbus, Ohio, who had expressed indignation over working conditions at Gauley Bridge, declined to attend Congressman Marcantonio's inquest at Washington until he knew who would pay his traveling expenses...
Acne, the militancy of Pennsylvania health officials, and regard for public opinion last week led General Electric Co. to shut down its wire factory at York, Pa. At that factory, only one of its kind in the General Electric setup, insulated wire is proofed against water and fire by impregnation in a synthetic wax prepared from chlorine and naphthalene. People who work with such waxy compounds run the risk of getting their pores plugged, breaking out with pimples. To safeguard against that industrial hazard in its York factory, General Electric compelled every workman to take a shower bath before leaving...
Dark of eye and square of jaw, effective William Esty is an amateur magician. He has a profound knowledge of the human hunger for health and wellbeing, having been gassed while behind an A. E. F. machine gun. This experience, plus his instinct for broad-gauge ballyhoo, has made him a modern reincarnation of the oldtime medicine show "doctor." The therapeutic qualities he first discovered in his cigaret program ("Get a Lift With a Camel") are now to be noted in tea. If the $500,000 test campaign shows results after a year, Mr. Esty confidently expects to develop...