Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spreading the Word. The U.S. State Department paid the peace congress little public heed. The Mexican press all but ignored it. With the public barred after the opening day, some concluded that the congress was a flop. But Lombardo and his fellow workers had reason to be satisfied. Said a Cuban delegate: "We are working for the future and getting plenty of propaganda out of our peace movement...
...Chicago and elsewhere were reluctantly ready, too. Their jeep-hats bobbed in school corridors, their scat-talk filled the classrooms, some of their jackets bore the inscription "Bebop is spoken here." In bebop or any other language, vacation was definitely over. Across the country, some 30,000,000 public, private and parochial schoolkids, the biggest crowd in history, were back in class or getting ready...
Last week, despairing of a legislative remedy, the U.S. Public Health Service turned to the next best thing: a nationwide educational program to encourage housewives to ask the grocer for iodized salt. When Ohio's Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton introduced a compulsory iodization bill, the Salt Producers' Association opposed it, protesting that it was medication by legislation. But the producers have assured Mrs. Bolton and PHS that they will use their advertising and publicity programs to promote the use of iodized salt. Mrs. Bolton, whose 22nd Ohio District is in the goiter belt, had taken up the campaign...
...Public Health Reports, Dr. William H. Sebrell outlined the campaign's goal: not only to prevent goiter, but to spread the word that iodine is essential to bodily health. The thyroid gland takes up iodine from the bloodstream and uses it to form a hormone, thyroxine. In turn, thyroxine regulates many body functions, including heat production, brain development, sexual maturity, and the growth of hair, skin and bones. A shortage of such an element as iodine, said Dr. Sebrell, may not be indicated dramatically by serious illness: "Just as often, or oftener, the result may be lowered efficiency, nervousness...
...being fitted with new shoes-unless they are taken to a store where they can look at their toes in an X-ray fitting machine. Then it's fun. But last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Charles R. Williams of the Harvard School of Public Health warned about the harm that this type of fun might cause, through overexposure to X rays...