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...well-paid U.S. soldier, who has found himself a rich man in most of the foreign cities he has visited, had a rude shock last week. He discovered that in both Paris and Brussels he was little better than a pauper...
...first accounts of insulin shock treatment for dementia praecox (type of insanity characterized by split personality, delusions, self-absorption, etc.) seemed to make the old miracle of casting out devils come true (TIME, Jan. 25, 1937).* Last week New York State's hard-headed Temporary Commission on State Hospital Problems, whose job it is to find ways of reducing the enormous state hospital population (73,000), ignored the miracle angle, produced the first report on what insulin can mean in days & months, dollars & cents. It recommended to Governor Dewey that, if only for economy's sake, insulin shock...
They Pay. The study was based on 1,128 patients treated with insulin at Brooklyn State Hospital between January 1937 and July 1942, compared with 876 from other hospitals who got no shock treatment. Results: 1) of the insulin-treated, 79.5% were able to leave the hospital, 55% were useful members of the community at the end of the study; 2) of the untreated, 58.8% were able to leave the hospital, 40.5% were useful members of the community. Only four insulin patients died during treatment, and only one death was directly traced to the drug...
This was not what they brooded over. One of them said curtly: "We don't need to be reoriented to the Army. A lot of us are damn glad to be going back overseas. What they should have prepared us for was the shock of coming home...
...canceled at one swoop, Grumman will have no choice but to "shut the doors" until he can find a market. But this contingency is remote. Grumman, with no cutbacks in the offing, this week goes back on a six-day week because of slightly increased schedules. And the shock of the end of the European war may be cushioned. The Navy may shift the bulk of plane contracts back to the old-line planemakers so that the automakers, et al., can get back to peacetime products...