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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Price Is High." Wrote one angry rice merchant: "You little-devil-just -out -of -your -mother's -womb, how dare you try to catch a fly on the tiger's head! If the price of rice is high, why are we merchants to blame? Take care lest one of your ancestors was a rice worm-in which case you're cursing your own forefathers. Be reasonable or you may regret it. . . ." Undaunted, Little Happiness sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bloodsucking Rice Worms | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Next Step. Smiling happily at the success of this experiment, Dr. Hall proceeded to the next. Some of his brown mice, still untested, had unusual ancestry. They were descended from fertilized ova transplanted from a female brown mouse into the womb of a black one. All the "genes" in their cells were of brown-mouse origin. Only the nourishment materials which formed their infant bodies came from their foster mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Belling the Mice | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...gene mutations induced by radioactivity may very easily destroy it." Destruction need not be immediate; mutated genes are insidious skulkers. They may lie in wait for centuries in the germ plasm, spreading by intermarriage through the population. Then, when they get their chance, they kill the child in the womb, or burden it with physical or mental defects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unpleasant Individuals | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Parliament had passed the National Health Service Bill, promising free, womb-to-tomb medical care for every Briton (TIME, April 1).* Now it was up to the doctors. Last week their answer came in: by a 23,110-to-18,972 vote, the British Medical Association said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Battle in Britain | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...advance of social medicine is breaking no speed records in the U.S. But in New York City last week it got a sharp spur: the city's Board of Estimate approved a "womb to tomb" health plan for 175,000 municipal employes and their families. More important, the city's action put pep in a new organization, the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: HIP, HIP | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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