Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well-Digger's Daughter" is distinguished chiefly for its frank and humane treatment of the problem of illegitimacy, a treatment that is in marked contrast to the lecherous curiosity with which most Boston dailies (the writer knows of only one exception) exploit the errors and failings of private individuals for a reading public that seems to prefer its pornography in a journalistic form. With typically Gallie sense of proportion and balance, the French-made film concerns itself with the plight of the pretty young daughter of a well-digger who finds herself with child by the handsome...
...with the youth's parents for a righting of the wrong done his daughter or when describing the ample charms of his late wife. This blend of the humorous with the elements of human tragedy is characteristic of this fine film which retains both humor and dignity in its treatment of a human problem...
Chinese medical facilities are fantastically primitive. Some hospital patients are required to bring their own beds, bedding, food and cooks. In rural areas, the best available medical treatment is furnished by traveling outdoor clinics, which announce their coming, as princes and officials used to do, with a vanguard of nurses, waving banners and ringing bells...
Superstitions & Fads. Doctors are often stymied by their patients' superstitious resistance to modern treatment. When the Government ordered cremation of the bodies of plague victims, relatives reacted so fiercely (on the ground that cremation would destroy the souls of the deceased) that the Government withdrew its order. Millions of Chinese women still modestly refuse to submit to a doctor's examination; instead, they keep handy a "medicine woman"-a small ivory nude on which they point out the site of their pains. Medical fads & fancies are prevalent even among China's upper classes; a current...
...under the price raisers. With a shrewd sense of public relations, Young Henry reduced the prices of Fords $15 to $50. Said he: the Ford Company was finally making money after a year in the red and could afford to shave prices, hoped to reduce them further. This "shock treatment" was the company's down payment toward stable prosperity. (It would also take some of the steam out of the U.A.W.'s demands for pay raises...