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...last week 1,870 of the 5,000 had successfully run the gauntlet, and 550 were already in training. Half of these clerical shock troops have had no more than a primary education. One was a coal miner, another a waiter, a third a warehouse clerk. By 1949 the Church of England hopes to have made 2,000 of them into clergymen, at a cost...
...Miner C. Hill, chairman of the Committee on Mothers' Milk, last week credited his wet nurses with a large part of the city's drop in infantile mortality, from 71.1 to 30.4 per 1,000 births during the last 24 years. Today's growing shortage he attributes to 1) prosperity, with fewer women needing the extra income; 2) widespread indifference of doctors to the priceless virtues of mother's milk (breast feeding is discouraged in many hospitals: it means more work for the staff); 3) modern fashions in motherhood -notions that breast feeding is not only...
...shade trees: A .1% DDT emulsion destroys tent caterpillars, cankerworms, gypsy moths, elm leaf beetles, boxwood leaf miner and some other pests. Warning: it increases the population of red mites, by killing their parasites...
...whole exhausting shutdown had stemmed from his demand for complete control of a miner's health and welfare fund. The mine owners had agreed almost at the start to pay royalties into it. They had even mentioned the 5?-a-ton figure which was ultimately agreed upon. They had balked at giving John L. complete control and he had refused to negotiate further. But he had happily accepted joint control from the Government...
LeRoy M. S. Miner...