Word: oregon
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Better than Death. Not surprisingly, the Big Five, though still continuing to invest in Hawaiian projects, are increasingly looking for new fields abroad. Besides last week's Italian venture, Castle & Cooke has over the past six years built up a thriving fish-cannery business in Oregon; its Bumble Bee canned fish last year accounted for 38% of its $4,600,000 earnings. C. Brewer & Co. has set up cane plantations and sugar refineries in Ecuador, Puerto Rico and Iran. American Factors is developing 1,400,000 acres for agriculture in Australia and is experimenting with raising pineapples in Honduras...
Four Kings. It is relatively small to begin with, about the size of Oregon (94,000 sq. mi.). It contains the source of the Nile in Lake Victoria, which, next to Lake Superior, is the world's largest freshwater lake. On its western borders rise the famed Mountains of the Moon; on the east, the towering 14,178-ft. Mount Elgon. In between stretch 500 miles of open meadow and sparse forest filled with elephants, gazelles, elands, lions and leopards. Typically, Uganda is also unstable, since its 6,845,000 people are riven by tribal, religious, economic and linguistic...
...first, no ill effects were reported. But then a cluster of three paralytic cases developed in Oregon within seven to 30 days after vaccination. Nebraska soon had three cases, Michigan and Ohio had two each, and New York had one. Two of these eleven victims were in their teens, but the others were aged 23 to 52. The available evidence, including complex laboratory tests, indicated that in four cases the disease was caused by the vaccine. About the others, the PHS experts withheld judgment...
...repetition of the warm response that greeted the opening of Kaiser's new Medical Office Building at Hayward, near Oakland, fortnight ago. it was one more impressive statistic to add to the success of the eleven other hospitals and 38 clinics that the foundation operates in California. Oregon and Hawaii...
Perhaps a major factor in Medikaiser's ability to stand up to the opposition of tradition-minded medicine is the organization of the plan's Permanente- Medical Groups. There is one group each for northern and southern California, Oregon and Hawaii. Most of the Permanente doctors are partners in their own organization, in undisputed charge of the medical care supplied to patients. This silences the bitterest opposition of organized medicine, which has always been reserved for any third party's, especially laymen, having any control over the relations between doctors and patients...