Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night baseball game in Milwaukee's County Stadium on the cover of its first issue. Inside are articles on everything from "The Battle of the Bubble Gum" ("The weapons are baseball players, the prize, millions of young Americans") to "The New Golden Age of Sport," a survey by the editors, who found that in sports "the Fabulous '503 are likely to replace the Golden...
Iron Pockets. It took twelve years, more than $250 million and a labor force that grew to 7,000 men to make Timmins' dreams come true. He raised more than $10 million just to survey the property to prove that the ore was sufficiently high-grade (50% or more iron content) to be attractive to steelmakers. Here and there, like almonds in a chocolate bar, prospectors found pockets of some of the richest iron ore ever mined in North America. They were able to block out 400 million tons assaying nearly 60% iron...
More dangerous than smoking are the many particles (mostly tars) breathed in by industrialized Western man, declared Dr. Wilhelm Hueper of the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Factory soot, arsenical dust, engine-exhaust fumes all contain such dangerous particles. In one N.C.I. survey of ten U.S. cities, tars were filtered out of the air, and even in tiny doses (.05 gram) they were found to cause skin cancer in laboratory mice...
...Skid Row floaters are a primary source of tuberculosis infection, reported the A.M.A. Journal. An eleven-month survey of transients at the Minneapolis Salvation Army Men's Social Service Center revealed a TB rate 55 times greater than the city average. Fatigue, crowded sleeping quarters (in fleabag hotels and charitable institutions), and uncleanliness help make the hoboes TB-prone. Moreover by taking temporary jobs as cooks' helpers and dishwashers, they spread the disease...
...percentage of premature babies soon catch up in size and weight to normal children, according to the British Medical Journal. A comparative survey of 700 children (half of them premature, the rest normal) showed that 40% of the premature babies had reached normal height and weight by the age of four. They were all children of average-sized mothers (average 63½ in., 135 lbs.). The laggard 60% were children of small women. Concluded the report: "The height of a mother gives a better indication of the likely growth pattern of her premature baby than does her baby...