Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories of Stamford, Conn, cautioned teenagers against carving initials on trees, explaining that fungus and insects used them as invasion points...
...criticizing the association's "indefinite and ... inadequate program." Under the combined assault, the A.M.A. brass gave way. This week they announced a twelve-point plan. Main points: 1) creation of a federal Department of Health, headed by a doctor who will be a Cabinet member, 2) increased medical research through a national science foundation, 3) more voluntary health insurance, 4) federal aid for medical education and hospitals...
...five days last week in Manhattan's Statler Hotel, some 12,000 parents, doctors and social workers turned out for the first National Conference on Cerebral Palsy. Research and slow, tedious treatment have proved that 75% of the cerebral palsied can be rehabilitated; many have above-normal intelligence...
...Matriarchy. When Kerr died in 1925, Mrs. Kerr stepped into her husband's job. She set up research laboratories, and showed a genuine flair for promotion. She offered university scholarships as prizes in canning contests, sent out salesmen in a fleet of 40 Fords with giant Kerr jars jutting from the rumble seats...
...Research on a method of training polio victims to use healthy muscles to do the job of paralyzed muscles will also receive March of Dimes support. Dr. Derek E. Denny-Brown., James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology, who is perfecting the scheme, points out that even the simplest actions are performed by a "team" of muscles. He feels that these teams can be taught to function even when polio cripples some of the member muscles...