Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education to convince most citizens (including T.R.) that good food could turn to poison. One such educator was a testy Department of Agriculture chemist. Dr. Harvey Washington ("Old Borax") Wiley, who got a volunteer "poison squad" to eat spoiling food, triumphantly proved that it made them miserably sick. In The Jungle, Muckraker Upton Sinclair rubbed the nation's nose in the filth of Chicago packing plants. On June 30, 1906, Teddy Roosevelt rode to the Capitol and ceremoniously signed the first U.S. Food and Drugs Act, to protect the people's stomach from willful or careless poisoning...
...figure of the dictator in which Charlie Chaplin portrayed Hitler, 'drew plans on a map of the world.' K cannot contain his laughter at and contempt for Stalin's military genius. Of the historical and military films of Stalin he says that 'they make us sick.' The snag is that on those films, on those books, on those poems there was organized the most vast propaganda hoax in the memory of the world...
...such straw appeared when Prince Bernhard heard of a wondrous cure performed upon a friend's tuberculous daughter by a woman named Greet Hofmans. Spinster Hofmans (now 61) was a mild-mannered, harsh-voiced woman who was born to poverty and spent a bleak childhood nursing a sick mother. In middle age, after an unrewarding life as a social worker and factory hand, she moved to Holland's hard-bitten north, where piety and superstition often walk hand in hand. There, she said, she had a personal talk with God who offered her miraculous powers for the benefit...
...Plainly, the distinction between the mentally sick on the one hand and the sinful (or the miserable and the muddled) on the other, is getting shakier and shakier ... Hence the dilemma: either our psychiatrist must be spending his time upon those who are not really ill at all ... or our conception of mental illness must be much too narrow, and needs to be widened to include pretty well everybody who is in trouble of any kind...
...both sides of the industry . . . free to apply themselves to the major project of making this industry successful." The U.S. today produces more coal at lower cost than any other nation in the world. With production running 15% ahead of 1955 and heavy export orders stacked up, the once-sick industry is fast improving its health...