Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is little question that man will get to the moon. In first landings he will have to bring his own food, water, shelter and tools. But once established, there is ample reason, within the achievements already reached or within sight, to be sure that he can learn to live there. Compared with the planets and stars, the moon probably has a mineralogical composition much like the earth's. In this recognizable state, man could live by means of today's technology, crude as it is. He could, suggests Air Force Lieut. Colonel S. E. Singer...
...Public Health Service (SESP) to protect vital rubber workers from the Amazon's scourges. Now only eight of SESP' 3,153-man staff are U.S. citizens, and 97% of its annual $10 million budget comes from Brazil. The outfit runs 249 rural clinics, 22 hospitals, 109 city water systems, 97 sewage-disposal systems. It has broadened life expectancy from 30 to 41 years, reduced infant mortality in some areas as much as 50%, confidently plans to eliminate filariasis in two years and malaria in seven. Last week in Iquitos, Peruvian and Colombian health ministers signed a bilateral pact...
...There is plenty of room," says Sabbá, and more men are moving into it. Belém-born Isaac Benzecry is processing alligator hides, distilling rosewood (for oils used in cosmetics), curing furs (ocelot, jaguar, otter) and skins (water hog, wild boar, deer). Onetime Belém Fruit Peddler and Cabbie Manuel Pinto Silva now turns out building tiles, cement and lumber, is putting the finishing touches on the Amazon's first skyscraper in downtown Belém. Ukraine-born U.S. Citizen Maurice Kleinberg started Belém's first deep-sea fishing fleet...
Flanagan's off-again-on-again heart stubbornly refused to resume its normal beat, though five doctors massaged it in relays for three hours. Adrenaline and other heart stimulators failed. So did electric shock. The trouble. Dr. Francis Coughlin Jr. decided, was that although heated blankets and hot-water bottles were warming Flanagan's outer layers, the blood in the heart was still chilled. So he had six quarts of warm, sterile saline solution poured into the open chest, onto the heart, while he and his colleagues continued the massage. Flanagan's heart responded with...
Front-Porch Campaign. McKinley was a Puritan by inheritance. His father, an Ohio pig-iron founder, gave Will's mother the most austere wedding trip imaginable-a drive in the buggy to a nearby spring for a refreshing drink of water (the month was January). The son was as free of vice as he was of intellectual curiosity. Throughout his life, his favorite plays were Rip Van Winkle and The Cricket on the Hearth. Methodist McKinley's only unseemly heritage from the smoke-filled rooms where he started his political career was the habit of smoking an occasional...