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Doctors give part of the credit to penicillin and other new drugs; e.g., deaths from pneumonia, 1930's big killer of youngsters under four, have been cut to onefourth. But medicine has made progress all along the line. Thanks to public-health campaigns and education of parents in diet and child care, there have been far fewer deaths from contagious diseases, tuberculosis, appendicitis, diarrhea, intestinal disease, rheumatic fever...
...billion (by far the largest single item). ¶International affairs: $3.5 billion-including $1.2 billion for the loan to Britain and $14.8 million for U.N. ¶ Veterans' services: $7.3 billion. ¶ Transport, communications and natural resources: $2.6 billion (including $443 million for atomic energy). ¶ Agriculture: $1.4 billion (onefourth of it for support of crop prices). ¶ Social welfare, health and security: $1.7 billion...
Spink met World War II by changing his paper to a tabloid and introducing news of other sports, too. Circulation dipped only onefourth, to 125,000. Then Spink hit his homer: an eight-page edition for servicemen...
With the hope of a Yale game taken away, the Crimson eleven is concentrating on immediate tasks, and the practice game at Tufts on Saturday is first on the list. Lamar's men will go into the game with only about onefourth the practice of the Jumbos, and so their showing is not expected to be as good as the one they should put on when the two clubs meet on November...
West Coast fishermen have troubles too. The sardine haul normally runs over a billion pounds a year (onefourth of the entire U.S. catch), goes into food, fish oil, fish meal and fertilizer. But this year bad weather, the loss of Jap and Italian crewmen, and Navy restrictions on when & where fishermen can fish have slashed output as much as 50%. The valuable tuna catch has also slumped, for the big fish are caught only in deep water far offshore. Fish prices have not risen as in New England. Reason: the Government is buying the entire 1942 sardine and tuna catch...