Word: healthiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Exposition opened on schedule and with it the new $1,225,000 Temple of Agriculture, penny-bright and new-broom clean. On hand was Chicago's Mayor Kelly to make a speech. Wilson & Co.'s Chairman Thomas Edward Wilson to entertain at dinner 1,300 healthiest members of the 4-H Club. New York's Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. to sit on the show's cattle department directorate, Dutchess County's Oakleigh Thome to see what his Eastern Aberdeen Anguses would do this year. Daily from Saturday to Saturday 35,000 visitors swarmed up & down...
...custom, two new human animals were crowned healthiest girl and boy: Doris Louise Paul, 15, of Wilton Junction, Iowa and Leland Monasmith, 18, of Lane, S. Dak. For the twelfth consecutive time highest grain honors went to a Canadian, with a one-peck sample of hard red spring wheat. Corn owned by an Indianan named Lux was chosen best of the crop. A ton of Clydesdale draft horse owned by Mr. Wilson's packing company was elected best of its kind...
...Grave," Sanitarian William Crawford Gorgas went ahead, chasing away the mosquitoes. Dr. Gorgas had learned about the fever-bearing mosquitoes in Cuba where Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay had indicted the insects and Dr. Walter Reed had convicted them. Their work enabled Dr. Gorgas to help make Havana the healthiest large city in the world, the Panama Canal an actuality. Similar work practically drove yellow fever from all North America, the West Indies and many infected regions of the world where the creation of wealth makes expensive effort worth while. But yellow fever has simply been kept away from such regions...
Miss Millspaugh's running mate as "healthiest U. S. boy" was Mortimer Foxman, 16, 5 ft. 7¼ in., 133 lb., who after high-school hours works in his mother's Chicago electrical shop...
Last week in a prize contest which the Century of Progress conducted Clista Millspaugh, heels down, head up and chest out, again won the title of healthiest U. S. girl, this time alone. Reward: $100 as a preliminary winner; $250 more for the finals. Shirley Drew came in second...