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...Lack of vitamin C was suggested by Dr. Carl T. Javert, of Cornell University Medical College, as a common factor in the inability of some women to carry babies to term. Of 100 he tested, 91 had babies after taking (among other treatments) five times the normal quota of vitamin C-four big glasses of orange juice a day, plus a hesperidin supplement...
...quota of three women now enrolled in Littauer will not be substantially different next fall. The school has no maximum on the number of women it can admit, McCloskey said, but in almost all cases women applicants must have had previous public service experience. This requirement is due to a corporation ruling, intended to limit the female enrollment which provides that students must be Littauer fellows...
Under the support plan suggested by former Secretary of Agriculture Brannan in 1949 the second method would have been used. But to prevent farmers from flooding the market, raising the cost of the support program prohibitively, the Brannan Plan included a quota system to restrict crop production. The response of Mid-Western farmers and conservative farm organizations was prompt and negative. The alleged "regimentation" and dependence on a yearly Congressional appropriation were so repulsive that the proposal had to be shelved...
...medical recognition. It is marked by two chief sets of symptoms. One involves the lungs, which are blocked by a heavy viscid mucus, with frequent infections like pneumonia, and wheezy breathing or persistent, hacking cough. The other set of symptoms affects the pancreas, which fails to deliver the normal quota of enzymes to the digestive system, so that children eat voraciously but fail to gain weight, and have frequent, abnormal bowel movements...
...quota for induction in the month of July is now listed at 24,00. Mefore the summer is over, total of 28,000 per month is expected...