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...Chest. The conventional shot at a 6-ft. range on a film 14 by 17 in. delivers .06 to .1 r. to the chest, about .001 r. to the gonads. At the 24-in. ranges used in mass chest surveys, the dosages go as high as 2 r. to the chest, but the scatter to the gonads is scarcely increased. But fluoroscopy, in which the image is viewed instantaneously on a screen, takes longer, may entail 3 to 10 r. per minute to the chest and .1 to .4 r. per minute to the gonads...
...give themselves." So says Thomas H. Coulter, head of Chicago's Association of Commerce and Industry. With this, most U.S. businessmen are in full agreement. While civic-minded executives and their companies still write generous checks (last year corporate donations of $100 and up totaled 40% of Community Chest donations, 34% of United Fund contributions), many businessmen are not content to discharge their public responsibilities with cash alone. Instead, more and more executives are donating time and talent to civic projects, from the Red Cross to slum clearance...
...Refining Co. lends a full-time staff of 100 Humble employees to help organize the United Fund drive, while Boeing Airplane Co. President William Allen, who is 1956 national chairman of United Community Campaigns of America, will lend six of his bright young executives to the Seattle Community Chest this year, pay their salaries while they spend three months organizing plant solicitation drives...
Labor unions, on the other hand, aggressively campaign for their candidates, will raise a $3,000,000 war chest (up nearly 50% since 1952) for the Democratic Party this year. While politically-oriented union periodicals and fund-raisers circulate freely in most plants, employers as a group feel workers would resent any effort to expound management's view of political issues...
...operations-surgery on the head and neck (including thyroid), hand and wrist, genital organs, or after amputation, skin graft, removal of a breast, stripping of a vein, fracture reduction, nailing of a hip or dressing of a burn. The operations most consistently followed by pain are those in the chest and abdominal cavities...