Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thereto a scalp of Green...
Ever since an epidemic of scalp ringworm started in eastern U.S. cities three years ago, many a small boy has been sent home from school for treatment. But doctors knew only one effective remedy: removing the infected hair, either by X ray or by pulling. Last week doctors of the U.S. Public Health Service had cheering news: scalping, they reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, may be unnecessary. In a wide test in Hagerstown, Md. they had discovered that an ointment rubbed on the head can cure scalp ringworm...
...girls, doctors used to think their shorter hair and the fact that they "scuffle more" than girls had something to do with it. By shrewd detective work, an altogether different explanation was found: boys get ringworm in barbershops. The P.H.S. men noticed that 65% of the boys' scalp infections were in the "clipper area." Following up the clue, they learned that, sure enough, barbers' clippers (also combs, brushes and scissors) in Hagerstown barbershops were heavily infected...
...Cleveland Indians bloom in the spring, and look pretty on paper, but in 45 years they have won the pennant only once. Every summer Cleveland fans rise up and holler for an Indian's scalp-usually the manager's. This time they wanted to fire the owners...
While manufacturers and meat packers howled for OPA's scalp (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), OP A picked up its own tomahawk and hacked hard at the list of items under price control...