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...Seijiro Suchiya, born in Japan, came to Los Angeles 22 years ago with his wife and his infant son to join the fishing fleet at Terminal Island. When FBI men raided the Island two months ago, Seijiro had three grown sons, lived in a clean, comfortable house-from which he could see the U.S. fleet at anchor off San Pedro...
...fortnight. The purpose of North Carolina's birth-control program has not been to cut down the State's birth rate-one of the highest in the country-but to increase the number of healthy newborn Tarheels. In five years the State's stillbirths, maternal and infant death rates have dropped sharply. In counties where the birth-control program reached a large number of women, the infant-mortality rate dropped an average of 40% since...
Prefabrication, the unwanted and long-ailing stepchild of the housing industry, had been adopted by his Uncle Sam last week and handed a fattening diet of Government funds ($135,789,730 in orders since Jan. 20 alone). The infant is now one of the lustiest war babies, may grow so big on war profits that it will be able to go on thriving after...
Said the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM : "The parallel between what is happening to the infant prefab industry in 1942 and what happened to the infant automobile industry in 1916, '17 and '18 is inescapable. World War I created a mass demand for cars and trucks which made possible the economics of mass production that, in turn, created a mass market for postwar sales. World War II is repeating the first part of this process with housing, may bring the second as surely as the chicken follows...
...early life was like a series of military marches. He went to Ireland, where he remembers (age four) his grandfather, the Lord-Lieutenant, saying as he unveiled a Dublin statue: ". . . with a withering volley he shattered the enemy's line." "Nor," says Author Guedalla, "was the martial infant . . . unaware of the nature of a volley...