Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit's worst typhoid epidemic in ten years began last month after a wedding reception at the Highland Park Baptist Church. Within three weeks, 22 guests fell ill, one died. Most of their doctors failed to diagnose the illness as typhoid (a common error). When typhoid was recognized, Health Director Dr. Charles G. Barone suspected that a typhoid carrier, infected but personally immune, was to blame...
...Detroit's carrier can probably be cleansed of her infection, said Dr. Barone, by removal of the gall bladder, where typhoid germs lurk. (Another possibility: a drug called iodophthalein.) New York City's celebrated carrier, "Typhoid Mary" (Mary Mallon), stubbornly refused to have her gall bladder purged, spent most of her last 30 years either locked up or eluding police to take jobs as a cook. She infected some 51 people, and died in 1938 -of a stroke...
...Grocer. While Congress sat in stalemate over OPA, the wondering. U.S. waited, too. In Detroit's Cadillac Square the United Auto Workers' fiery Walter Reuther called on a huge rally of consumers to wage a buyers' strike on meat until price controls were restored. (Demonstrating C.I.O. members in Cleveland jostled placards which promised: "I won't buy you anything but love, baby.") All over the nation, housewives talked up to their grocers. Wholesale prices on meat, butter and poultry fell off from post-OPA highs...
First thing ABC plans to do is to float its first public stock issue of 950,000 shares. That will bring in some $13,000,000, of which $3,630,000 will be used to buy Detroit's King-Trendle Broadcasting Corp. Other millions are earmarked for big, but nebulous, plans for a nationwide chain of television and FM stations. Although the new stock issue will cut Noble's interest in ABC from 71.39% to 36.52%, no one was happier about the FCC action than Ed Noble...
...Detroit the word got around fast. The Canadians had revalued their dollar. Instead of being worth only 91 U.S. cents, it was now worth a U.S. dollar. But Washington apparently had not heard about it. At the postoffice, smart Detroiters were still able to buy postal orders for cashing in Canada at 91 U.S. cents for a Canadian dollar. The Detroiters cashed the orders in Canada. The Canadian dollars were turned in, dollar for dollar, for U.S. dollars. The quick profit...