Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presently the other passengers heard the sharp slap and the tiny squall. Genially Dr. Conly asked one woman for her turban, and in it he wrapped the eight-pound boy. For another day Mrs. Mohorovicic kept her newborn baby warm by snuggling him inside her lifebelt. Then a rescue ship drew alongside. The newborn child was handed up to a startled seaman. No assistance was needed for sturdy, 28-year-old Desanka Mohorovicic. She clambered up the cargo net, took a shower before she turned in. Last week, in a Norfolk, Va. hospital, she was feeling fine, getting ready...
...North Carolina's) had its fifth birthday last fortnight. The purpose of North Carolina's birth-control program has not been to cut down the State's birth rate-one of the highest in the country-but to increase the number of healthy newborn Tarheels. In five years the State's stillbirths, maternal and infant death rates have dropped sharply. In counties where the birth-control program reached a large number of women, the infant-mortality rate dropped an average of 40% since...
...mile assembly lines so fast that Ford will not try to store them. The deadly infants will be ranked on a great new airfield, stretching out from the assembly end of the plant, with enough white concrete runways to make a highway 22 miles long. From those runways the newborn bombers will make their test flights, then take off for service...
...figured that thousands who were unavailable for military service because of age, sex, physical defects, would still be available for much useful home-front work: carrying messages, patrol work, etc. The Army thought there might be something in the idea, assigned Major General John F. Curry to head newborn...
Encephalitis may attack anyone from the newborn to the octogenarian. About a third of the victims of epidemic encephalitis die; another third are crippled by all sorts of nervous disorders, the remainder seem to recover. But they cannot tell what is in store for them, for the disease continues to smolder for many years, often destroying brain tissue, producing startling changes in personality...