Word: infants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven-man board of owner-contributors (including Clifton Fadiman and John Hersey) had taken over to make sure that the infant '47 survived to become '48, when it would take ads. "People have been fired, ideas and departments shelved," they reported. "Any day now you will receive a '47 which we send out (for the first time) with confidence and some pride...
Despite Big Doctor's backbreaking work (his daily schedule: 6:30 a.m. to midnight), Navajo health is still bad (the T.B. rate is 14 times the national average; the infant death rate, seven times). Says Salsbury: the neglected Navajos need more doctors, better sanitation, a more nourishing standard of living...
...ended fiscal 1947 with a $700 million surplus, but it had not been foreseen in the budget. The 1930-46 period is the longest in which the U.S. ever operated in the red. The infant republic broke about even on deficits and surpluses from 1789 to 1800. Thereafter, Treasury spokesman Albert Gallatin, a strong advocate of high taxes to cut public debt, got it into the habit of trying to stay in the black. The U.S. has managed surpluses in 95 of its 158 years, but has never been entirely out of debt. Lowest point of the national debt...
...Samaritan Hospital, Obstetrician Joseph Crotty had trouble believing his ears. He thought he heard a baby's cry issuing from the abdomen of a maternity patient. The doctor listened carefully, finally decided that it was, indeed, a baby's cry. An hour later, still wailing lustily, the infant girl was born (and was followed by an unprotesting twin sister). Dr. Crotty had called in other doctors, and so had witnesses to vouch for his story...
Obstetricians had an explanation for the rare occurrence. An infant who begins to breathe in the womb is in danger of drowning in amniotic fluid. But when the fetal sac breaks and the fluid flows out, the unborn child can get a few lungsful of the air entering the womb through the birth passage. The rhythm of the laboring mother's contracting uterus acts as an artificial respirator...