Word: infant
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...growing family of critically short defense materials, Senator Lyndon Johnson's investigating committee last week added an outsize, howling new infant: wool. The committee found "no wool in stockpile" and "no wool in inventory," because of "abysmal lack of foresight. If general mobilization were undertaken now," said the committee, "we would again be as bad off-or perhaps even worse-than we were during both World Wars." The Munitions Board, which is responsible for stockpiling critical materials, "has clearly and miserably failed." The board had even neglected to take title to 460 million pounds of surplus wool held...
Only two hours (on an average) after an office delivery, mother & child are sent home in an ambulance. After 50 such cases, with no maternal or infant deaths and few complications, the Millers are confident that office deliveries are often just what the country doctor should order...
...Institute, Orthodontist Graber and other researchers emphasize that five-sixths of the upper jaw's growth is completed in the first five years of life, while the lower keeps on growing for another dozen years or more. When surgery is performed to close a cleft palate in an infant only one or two years old, Dr. Graber says, the growth of the upper jaw may be stunted, tooth buds are often destroyed, and normal growth of the lower jaw eventually produces a grotesque appearance...
...zoologists' intention is, of course, beyond reproach. To trace man's ancestry to the ape and the chimpanzee is a noble purpose. And this purpose they have made explicit wherever possible; they have placed a mother monkey, for instance, with her stuffed infant over her knee...
...fought federal aid to the states to reduce infant and maternal mortality ("Federal bureaucratic interference with the sacred rights of the American home...