Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many U. S. citizens believe that smallpox was wiped out in this country decades ago. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Statistical Bulletin last week pointed out a striking statistic: the U. S. in 1939 had over 10,000 smallpox cases. "With the single exception of India [with almost 130,000 cases]," said the bulletin, "we still lead the civilized world in our tolerance of this loathsome and dangerous disease."* The reason: failure to vaccinate. Only ten States (nine of them east of the Mississippi) have compulsory vaccination laws...
...decorated for his part in the Boer War, was knighted in 1911. In 1937 Cape Town, believing Sir Abe dead after his leg had been amputated, dropped its flags to half-mast. Next year the doughty oldster lost his other leg, forestalled half-mastery by issuing a bulletin announcing that he was doing fine...
...patrolled the English Coast with a recording van for a solid week before he happened upon an air fight off the chalk cliffs of Dover. For nine frantic minutes, Gardner talked into his recording machine, then whirled off to London to persuade the Ministry of Information to issue a bulletin on the raid an hour earlier than usual. Dramatic enough to galvanize even the most stolid Britisher, the Gardner broadcast wound up in fine sporting style with the home-team winning nine planes...
...Valiant words!" cried a "war bulletin" issued by the German Embassy in Buenos Aires. The Buenos Aires Critica thought differently, headlined its report of the speech: VARGAS, WITH FASCIST LANGUAGE, JUSTIFIES THE AGGRESSION OF THE BARBARIANS. In Washington, the State Department refused to get excited, intimated that Getulio was talking for domestic consumption. That was what the Brazilian Press & Propaganda Department said. Getulio himself assured the President by cable that his speech could "in no sense be regarded as contradictory" to the Charlottesville address...
...walking factory of typhoid germs, to which she herself was immune. It was known that Typhoid Mary gave the disease to 57 people before she was finally caught and confined to New York City's North Brother Island, where she died in November 1938. Last week Health News, bulletin of the New York State Health Department, reported a successor to Typhoid Mary. "Like Mary Mallon, Sally is a cook by trade." At the age of 23 she had an attack of typhoid fever. In the 34 years since her recovery she has spread the disease wherever she handled food...