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Another prime mover is Taul Watanabe, 57, who was briefly interned during World War II because of his Japanese ancestry but won his release, after petitioning President Roosevelt, to accept a law-school scholarship. Now a vice president of the Burlington Northern Railroad, he persuaded the presidents of six Japanese shipping companies - all of whom he knows - to use Seattle as their U.S. port. That move created 3,100 jobs, $50 million in annual direct benefits for the region and helped make Seattle one of the nation's leading containership ports. Watanabe was among the first to urge Dixy...
Last year the two squads opened the season against each other up in Burlington. The Crimson then emerged victorious in an exciting 5-2 tilt, highlighted by a George Hughe's penalty-shot goal in the first period...
...first the patients seemed to be suffering from simple pneumonia. But when doctors at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont in Burlington investigated further last August, they realized that they were probably dealing with something more puzzling and dangerous. As Dr. Harry Beaty, the hospital's chief of medicine, recalls, the symptoms-dry cough, abdominal pain, general malaise -"were defying all our usual concepts of pneumonia." So he promptly sent off blood samples to Atlanta's Center for Disease Control (CDC). A few weeks later the center's sleuths confirmed Beaty's worst fears. His "pneumonia...
...reported that at least twelve deaths at the Burlington hospital could be attributed to Legionnaires' disease. Officials suspected that the total number of people stricken by the baffling illness in Vermont over the past two months was at least 54-and most likely dozens more. That would make the outbreak the worst since the discovery of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1976, when 181 people were hospitalized and 29 died. Only the prompt decision of the Vermont doctors-made before they had the results from Atlanta-to administer erythromycin kept...
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