Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every lab worker knows, humans seldom react in exactly the same manner as lab animals. But the English ophthalmologists are hopeful that their preliminary experiments contain some preliminary answers. It now seems more probable than ever that too much oxygen in the incubator, combined with sudden removal to normal air, may cause retrolental fibroplasia in premature children. And too little oxygen in the fetal blood stream may help to bring about the same condition...
...first program of the series, Shipyard Worker Roland Allen told how one day he was inside a ship's fuel tank, welding a lid, when he found that the lid's bolts, which he had tightened with his fingers because he had forgotten his wrench, would not come unscrewed, and he was trapped inside. "The first thought that came to me was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon to be read in all Christian Science churches the next day, 'God the Preserver of Man.' I kept this in mind and prayed as I had been taught...
Pretty Well Read. After the interrogations, Dean lived in virtual isolation with several Korean-speaking guards. Once in a while he had a visit from two Communist correspondents, Alan Winnington of the London Daily Worker and Wilfred Burchett of Paris' L'Humanite. At first, not allowed to read, he passed the time by doing mathematical problems in his head. One favorite exercise: squaring all the numbers from i to 1,000. Later he was given Communist books-the works of Lenin and other Red scriptures-to read. "I'm pretty well read on Communism," said Dean wryly...
...final day dawned, even London's Communist Daily Worker stopped scowling at capitalists long enough to huzzah...
Budget Problem. In St. Louis, accused of sending his wife only $30 a month to live on, Railroad Worker Jesse McClinton protested that he could not possibly afford to give her more money, but got a year in jail after he asked the judge: "Who's going to pay for my car and television...