A Mighty Force: Dr. Elizabeth Hayes and Her War for Public Health Biederman Marcia
A Mighty Force: Dr. Elizabeth Hayes and Her War for Public Health Biederman Marcia In the last half of 1945, news of the war's end and aftermath shared space with reports of a battle on the home…
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A Mighty Force: Dr. Elizabeth Hayes and Her War for Public Health Biederman Marcia
In the last half of 1945, news of the war's end and aftermath shared space with reports of a battle on the home front, led by a woman. Hayes, MD, doctor for a coal company that owned the town of Force, PA, where sewage contaminated the drinking waters, and ambulances sank into muddy unpaved roads while corrupt managers, ensconced in Manhattan high-rises, refused to make improvements. She was Elizabeth O.
Press - including women reporters, temporarily assigned to national news desks in wartime - flocked to the small mining town to champion Dr. When Hayes resigned to protest intolerable living conditions, 350 miners followed her in strike, shaking the foundation of the town and attracting a national media storm. Hayes' cause.
Slim, blonde, and 33, "Dr. Betty" became the heroine of an environmental drama that captured the nation's attention, complete with mustache-twirling villains,