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...done as much as any man living to subdue the influenza virus put the finishing touches on some experiments at the University of Wisconsin, then flew to California to check on virus research at Berkeley. Soon he will go back to his own laboratories in Melbourne. Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet came to the U.S. to receive a Lasker Award and to tell fellow virologists what he has found out Down Under...
...Burnet, 53, was still in school when the great influenza wave struck and had no thought that it would mean so much to him later. But he went to work and became a virologist, won fame by isolating the giant virus (rickettsia) which causes Q fever. He was in London in 1933 when influenza virus was first isolated, and his interest became sharply focused. Year after year (especially during World War II, when another epidemic was feared), Burnet went on performing delicate laboratory tests with influenza strains...
...Frank Macfarlane Burnet of Melbourne, for fundamental work on viruses...
This troublesome situation was quickly illustrated when South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, chairman of the controls-controlling Banking & Currency Committee, spoke up. Present controls are adequate, he said. Then he talked about inflation in terms of wages, which is almost heresy in the Truman Administration: "The wage increases which recently have been allowed in the steel industry and in other industries are certain to have an inflationary effect." A special session, with Maybank and other Southerners talking like that, would de-unify the Democratic Party in short order. Adlai Stevenson, who had officiated at the reconciliation ceremonies...
Congress' immediate reaction to Harry Truman's seizure of the steel mills was a volley of polysyllabic denunciation: "usurpation . . . socialization . . . intemperate . . . dangerous implications . . ." New Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges demanded a Judiciary Committee inquiry. South Carolina's Democrat Burnet Maybank called a halt to consideration of the controls program, due to expire June 30. Even the most ardent friends of labor warned that Harry Truman was wielding a two-edged sword-one that in the hands of another President might be turned against labor itself...