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...germs were rallying and fighting back. All over the U.S., bacteriologists studied the phenomenon, and by last week the rumors were well confirmed. Within a few years, ventured Dr. Hans Molitor, penicillin and streptomycin may lose much of their power to cure some of the most prevalent diseases. No alarmist, Dr. Molitor should know what he is talking about: as director of the Merck Institute, he was a pioneer in the development of antibiotics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hardier Germs | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...Alarmist's Holiday. In Stamford, Conn., although Fireman William J. Dowling was off duty, he turned up at each of seven false-alarm trips, was then ar rested for turning in all seven himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 23, 1945 | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Billing, 48, famed alarmist, author of The Red Network; by Albert Wallwick pilling, 51, engineer; for the second time; in Reno. Their shrill 1942 countersuits ended in reconciliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...their fading adventure in the Aleutians, the Japanese allotted only about 3,000 troops (alarmist figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: How to Fight Japs | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...minute. He left just when our first major attack of the war was being launched in the Solomon Islands-so he was over there all through the seven months when the tide turned. Bob called the turn almost to the day. With the press still filled with alarmist reports he cabled us on April 20 that "last week was the end of the Japs' big chance. Now it looks as though they could not invade Australia if they tried." Some or all of the time that Sherrod was in Australia there were five other representatives of the TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 31, 1942 | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

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