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Show I B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage More than a million dollars' worth of schools are destroyed by fire per month. The number of women applying for admission to medical schools in 1942 was the largest in the history of the schools, and was greater than in the preceding year by 25 per cent In 1941, 636 women applied for admission; in 1942, 810 applied. Newest of the women's uniformed groups is the United States Cadet Nurse corps, set up to revive young women's interest in enlistment as student nurses. The war department has inaugurated inaug-urated an employee suggestion program pro-gram for its civilian personnel similar simi-lar to those now being used successfully success-fully in private industry throughout the nation. Cash awards, ranging from $5 to $250, and more in special spe-cial cases, will be paid for each suggestion sug-gestion adopted and used. The hog population Is liable to outrun the feed supply. A scientific "detective force" of six dermatologists and a chemist has tracked down causes of skin diseases, and prevented further outbreaks, out-breaks, among workers in more than 50 government and privately owned arsenals and war plants, U. S. Public Pub-lic Health Service officials announce, i All new heating and cooking stoves designed to burn coal, wood, oil or gas for domestic use (with certain exceptions) will be rationed in mid-August, the OPA has announced. an-nounced. Olympic game sports, Including more than a dozen track and field events and heavy gymnastics have been "abolished from Japanese life so that the Japanese way of living may be emphasized," the Tokyo radio ra-dio declared in a recent broadcast to Japanese areas. |