Word: sicknesses
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Like earlier New Deal years, 1940 was good for operating utilities, tough for utility holding companies. SEC forced Howard Hopson's weird Associated Gas & Electric into receivership, and watched sick Howard Hopson tremble and snore the year out in a criminal court. In St. Louis, it surprised North American's Union Electric Co. in the embrace of the State Legislature, and helped send its management to jail...
Last week, in the thick of these revelations, the Quartermaster Corps's Brigadier General Charles D. Hartman was relieved from duty. He was no scapegoat, said the War Department, but a man who was sick from overwork. Assigned to plug the holes in Army construction was the Corps of Engineers' Lieut. Colonel Brehon B. Somervell, who had done a standout job as New York City's WPA Administrator. Air Corps construction was snatched bodily away from the dusty, tape-bound Quartermaster Corps and handed over to the Engineers...
...Francisco, where many hospital staff members fell sick. Health Officer Jacob Casson Geiger asked for a $7,500 appropriation to hire substitutes, ordered postponement of all operations except for emergencies...
...training camps along the West Coast, thousands of soldiers were down with flu. At Fort Lewis, Wash., about 1,400 men were confined to tents and canvas field hospitals. Popular treatment: an aspirin and a glass of gin. ^ In Hollywood almost half of the movie stars were sick in bed. Some who went to work wore surgeons' masks for protection...
...communicants), fashionable St. Luke's since 1924. There he has introduced, but not publicized, two services which most Episcopalians do not even know exist, though provision was made for them in the last prayer-book revision of 1928. These are Holy Unction (anointment of the sick with olive oil specially blessed by a bishop), and a Laying on of Hands at the altar rail for spiritual healing. Father Conkling says: "I have never known a single case where there was not some benefit, spiritual or physical...