Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur S. Biddle '48 of Claverly Hall, a 20-year-old College Junior from Chicago, emerged last night as the chief figure in a water rescue of three persons whose automobile had plunged through a bridge railing into the Fort Point Channel in back of South Station...
...though 420 miles from the nearest railhead and 450 from a highway, Yellowknife has a flourishing taxicab business, carrying passengers between town, airport and mines. The local administration wanted the right to regulate the cab business. The council said yes. It also gave the boomtown authorities power to deliver water (there is no plumbing), to dispose of garbage, and to levy...
...Sylvia Carol Steinberg, armed with hypodermics and vials, went briskly to work in a restaurant. Queues formed quickly. In two days, with her boy friend looking on admiringly, she had vaccinated 500 people. Suspicious cops finally hauled her into a police station, found that she had "vaccinated" everybody with water. Arraigned for "assault," she was packed off to a psychiatric ward...
...average miner lives in a company-owned, one-story, unpainted wooden shack more than 30 years old. Of 1,154 company houses surveyed, only one in ten had a bathroom with tub or shower; 75% had outdoor privies (few meeting minimum sanitary standards); less than half had piped-in water; only a third were properly screened. Well over half the towns had no sewage system or garbage collection; housewives often dumped garbage near the house or in foul streams running through the town (see cut). Though miners lack bathrooms at home, less than half the mines have showers for washing...
About half of the milk bought by miners' families is unpasteurized. Coal-mining towns get less than their proportionate share of state public-health services; in half the towns the water supply is not adequately inspected for freedom from pollution. One result of poor health services: infant mortality in mining areas is higher than elsewhere...