Word: natality
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...napkin. The plane is mounted on the Westphalen's catapult whence it is shot off to continue its journey. After its overnight stop last week, the Monsoon was shot off in the morning for an easy day's flight of 950 mi. to Natal, Brazil. Total elapsed time across the ocean: 33½ hr. Other flying boats were standing by for additional rehearsal flights during the coming rainy season for the regular service which is to begin, with mail only, next spring...
Castor has been watching with some trepidation the pre-natal career of the Federal Housing Plan, that incautious boast of the Interior Department, but now that the midwives have ceased their incantations it seems a pretty sorry infant after all. When we heard that Secretary Ickes, having ascertained that 200,000 professional coal miners would be superfluous in the future, had decided upon drastic action, we naturally wondered on whose head the axe would fall, but the coal producers talked their way out of it, and left only the landlords in candidacy. The awful blow has come; the government proposes...
...been ingenious enough to have concocted a better movie than "The Mystery of the Wax Museum," or it would at least have known that the beautiful hues which result from burning film are a lot more fun to watch than a movie which should still be in its pre-natal stage. Nevertheless, those people who enjoyed Frankenstein should not miss this picture; there are several murders, and Lionel Atwill's make-up provokes ladies to titter...
...influence many expectant mothers, desperately in need of the advantages of hospital care, to refuse to go to a hospital, which might mean the life of the mother, the child, or both. Probably, if this matter was carefully investigated, one would find that patients encountered in the pre-natal clinics and in the homes, who present complications, are usually urged to go to the hospital for delivery. Therefore, in the small number of hospital deliveries, there are no doubt a large percentage of complicated cases, as compared with those in the home. Consequently, a higher mortality must be expected...
...going off the gold standard were not enough last week, South Africa shivered two days later from earth tremors in all her four provinces: Cape of Good Hope, seat of Cape Town at Africa's nether tip; Natal on the east coast; the inland Orange Free State; and the Northern Transvaal, seat of Pretoria, the. Union administrative capital, 850 mi. northeast of Cape Town. Severest shocks were felt in Natal where brick houses cracked open, some collapsing. In Johannesburg, largest South African city (pop. 288,000) 40 mi. south of Pretoria, doors and windows rattled, bric-a-brac fell...