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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brucellosis can be stopped at its source by 1) vaccination and 2) killing infected animals. But the cost is high. At last week's Congress, delegates heard a hopeful report from a veteran fighter against the disease: Dr. Forest Huddleson of Michigan State College announced a new vaccine which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Creeping Fever | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

The Euthanasia Society of America, which vouches for the story, cites it as an indication that many doctors favor "mercy killing" in extreme cases. Last week the society started a widely backed drive to make euthanasia legal. It announced that 1,500 New York doctors and 54 eminent clergymen (among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Make It Legal? | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Ringleader of this aggressive revival of an old argument: Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, sprightly, 85-year-old president of the society, gynecologist, artist, marriage counselor. He had drawn a bill for "dignified, merciful" killing. Under it, any patient over 21 who found life unbearable could apply to a court for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Make It Legal? | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Despite such sale-killing conversations, television sets were selling like white shirts in New York and Chicago department stores last week. RCA-Victor put its first sets on sale (table models selling for $350 plus a $50 maintenance fee), sold over $1 million worth. Allen B. DuMont Laboratories also put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sight Unseen | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Last week the Army prepared to resentence Walter for several months. "The rate at which these Germans are killing U.S. dogs is almost an open measure of defiance," said one officer. But Mrs. Tietz was philosophical. "One lives somehow," she said. As for Betty-she already had a new dog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Roses for Kasha | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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