Word: contagions
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...transport is its speed. Bugs which would die in an eight-day voyage can survive a two-day flight. Last week, in the December number of the Uni-versity of California Alumni Monthly, an article called Doctors, Insects and Air Routes explained a new harbor hygiene against inbound contagion. To halt immigration of any more such pests as the corn-borer, Japanese beetle or red scale, the U. S. Public Health Service insists that all planes from South America or Asia must be sprayed. Pan American Airways conscientiously sprays its Pacific Clippers with a pyrethrum extract at each stop. Aircraft...
...Leprosy will have disappeared before Science finds a cure for it," says Dr. Muir. All that is necessary to stamp it out is to prevent contagion by segregating lepers and removing children from leprous parents, see that the general population has enough to eat and keeps clean...
...made the ship that brings Ted, Mush & Gunny home a submarine instead of the usual dreadnought. Everybody seems satisfied with the plot as they pair off in the Lonely Hearts Club with Hey, Babe, Hey! a novelty song and dance that is the season's high for cinemusical contagion. Frances Langford is a good dancer for a girl who can sing as well as she can and Buddy Ebsen, her foil, has a good comedy voice considering he is also the No. 1 U. S. eccentric tap dancer. With Una Merkel and Sid Silvers clowning through the Cole Porter...
...rushed Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus at rumors that 85 patients, most of them U. S. citizens, languished unattended because the French hospital staff had caught the contagion of their country's "folded arms strikes" (TIME, June 8 et seq.). When Mr. Straus arrived he found all the French nurses and all the French cooks at their posts, but 60 scrubwomen, laundry workers and basement engineers, including one naturalized U. S. citizen, had locked themselves "on strike" in the basement. As headlines screeched in the Paris Herald, to the rescue planned to go the local American Legion, the American Women...
...this way there will be removed an implied discredit (unintentional, I am sure) to that famous Shrine, where the real miracle consists in the fact that in spite of the various maladies of many of the pilgrims, neither epidemic nor contagion has ever occurred there...