Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years observers have doubted the efficacy of football receipts to maintain monumental athletic plants. Even a rise of twenty-five per cent in gridiron receipts would bring the H.A.A. income to less than half the 1929 figures. In addition to this, the rise of professional football, voted by the nation's sportswriters as the most significant event of 1934, tends to offset "recovery" in amateur football...
Washington, April 10--President Roosevelt believes he can spend the nation out of the depression without using all of the $4,880,000,000 Work-Relief fund...
Last summer the nation was excited by the invention of two vaccines to protect children against infantile paralysis (TIME, July 16; Aug. 27). There remained to be invented a simple, speedy way of finding out what children are susceptible to infantile paralysis and therefore need such vaccine...
Tests indicate that every other child is liable to an attack by cerebro-spinal meningitis. Currently only 174 cases are known to exist in the U. S. Last year at this time there were only 49 cases. But four years ago an epidemic flecked the nation with children dying stiff as boards. In extreme cases the disease bent the necks of victims so tensely that the backs of their heads lay between their shoulder blades...
...means the only religious folk currently to become alarmed over the martial world in which they live. Largely because so many of them were stampeded into helping fight the last war with word and deed, a substantial number of U. S. clergymen are bending their efforts to keep the nation, or at least themselves, out of the next one. Recent examples...