Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once to investigate the relation of human encephalitis to equine encephalomyelitis, and last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. LeRoy Dryden Fothergill and associates* announced that, for the first time, from a case of human encephalitis, they had isolated a virus which was identical with the eastern strain of equine encephalomyelitis virus. A few days later, in Science, Pathologists Leslie Tillotson Webster and F. Howell Wright of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute confirmed the findings of the Boston physicians and described four similar cases...
Some were killed and samples of their brain tissue were injected into other healthy mice, which fell sick in two days and died. The virus also worked on monkeys, guinea pigs, rabbits. Typical of eastern equine encephalomyelitis was the two-day incubation period, as well as the violent symptoms which are unique and completely different from those occurring in human beings. As a further check, however, they injected deadly doses of the virus into animals which had been immunized against eastern equine virus. All these remained "perfectly well...
...June 1936 Eastern railroads began selling passenger tickets at 2? a mile (after 16 years at 3.6?). Within a few months officials complained that the low fare was a losing proposition. Increase in traffic, they said, was not enough to compensate for the cut rate. After hearing them grumble for months, the Interstate Commerce Commission last July permitted them to hike their fares to 2½? mile. This was expected to raise income about $32,000.000 (TIME, July...
...helped the railroads as much as a rainy climate helps rheumatism. The Pennsylvania Railroad's passenger revenues fell 14% below August 1937, the New York Central's 17%, Baltimore & Ohio's 19.5%, the New York, New Haven & Hartford's 3%. All told, August was the Eastern railroads' worst month for passenger revenues this year...
...merger, subject to ICC and stockholders' approval, will give K.C.S. complete possession of the shortest route between Kansas City and New Orleans (it now shares it with L.& A.), will also link Louisiana Gulf ports with eastern Texas. Said Harvey Couch: "A substantial increase in payrolls may be expected to result from increased business of the unified roads...