Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the University of Chicago group reported that of 54 patients, most got some relief: their fever and malaise disappeared, their tumors subsided, they gained weight, some went back to work. Nitrogen mustard sometimes worked after X rays had become ineffective. Best results were against incurable Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes. Although Hodgkin's is almost invariably fatal, one Chicago patient, a young commercial artist, has been kept in good working health for 33 months by periodic mustard treatments. Nitrogen mustard, the doctors warned...
...members of the Armed Forces and the public at large rarely stop to compute the full income tax that merchant seamen must pay, vacation or furlough money that these seamen must supply for themselves, and family allotments that civilian seamen must supply out of their pay. The official Navy Journal, after a survey of both groups, concluded that there was no great difference in Merchant Marine and Navy pay, stating further that certain ranks in the Navy seemed to be in a better financial position than their counterparts in the merchant fleet...
Wallace will bring to Michael Straight's magazine the years of experience which he had as editor of the farm journal which he in turn had inherited from his father. His long experience in government, his warm concern for the welfare of the peoples of the world, and his ability to dramatize complex social situations with such slogans as "60,000,000 jobs" should enable the magazine to broaden its scope beyond its present circulation of 50,000 readers, almost all of whom live on the East Coast. By becoming more of a national magazine, the New Republic...
Major (and unintentional) point driven home by the week's work: under Favorite Son William Randolph Hearst Jr., the Journal ain't what it used...
There were plenty of other crusades-for woman suffrage, against child labor and the yellow peril, etc. (The Journal gracefully took no credit for the Spanish-American War.) If a Hearst reporter had not dropped a chance remark to a Manhattan Borough president in 1915, the Triborough Bridge might never have been built. The politician told the reporter the idea of the bridge was "a wonderful thing. . . . Write me a memo on it." And 21 years later, the bridge was there...