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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officials think the rise may be due to 1) a slackening in immunization, 2) an increase in vulnerability among young adults (many recent diphtheria deaths have been among returning G.I.s). By Army figures, about half of those in the 19-to-30 age group are susceptible. Their immunization is a problem because diphtheria inoculations often make grownups seriously...
...home ranch and cow-camp, we like these cups. They keep coffee hot, and the handles let men, as well as women, who know better but like to do it, "hook" their cups. The ample wife of one rancher has trouble with the dribble. I thought it due to ill-fitting dentures, but noticed last dehorning that she laps her lip far down the side, as a child does...
Overall conclusions: 1) penicillin is no cureall, but neither is it a flash in the pan; 2) penicillin's occasional failures have been due mainly to improper use.* The Fleming book is also a detailed guide to practitioners on how & when to use the drug. Items...
Part of this was just a paper expansion due to increased prices or a normal increase necessitated by the increase in production, the delay in shipments. Some of it was probably caused by manufacturers stocking up in anticipation of higher prices. But what the Department of Commerce-and some businessmen-feared was that a sizable chunk was due to a decline in demand because of 1) high retail prices and 2) overproduction of certain items...
...Failure. Just what Author Adamic expected the Tory Prime Minister to do about such a Utopian plan as he proposed is hard to say. Whatever it was, he now concludes that Europe's present tension is due largely to the U.S.'s failure to insist on a "democratic revolution" over there, via the Two-Way Passage idea or something like it. His summary of what did happen: Churchill, symbolizing "Conquest" rather than "Liberation," was able to "seduce" F.D.R. into a "counterrevolutionary foreign policy" by drumming up the dangers of the U.S.S.R. Author Adamic himself sees the U.S.S.R...