Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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European typhus fever, also called "spotted fever'' and "ship fever," is not to be confused with typhoid fever. For generations it was the scourge of armies, and it still flourishes in Poland, Russia and the Balkans. It is transmitted by lice and fleas (hence delousing stations in the World War). The disease is due to a cosmopolitan virus called Rickettsia prowazeki,* which dwells in the intestines of the filthy little insects. Vaccines made from dead typhus viruses provide immunity from the disease, but such vaccines are difficult to make, for Rickettsia prowazeki cannot be easily cultured in artificial...
...million persons in the U. S. who suffer from hay fever, asthma and assorted allergies, came welcome news last week as two researchers offered promising clues to the treatment of these chronic ailments...
...that the chemical cause of asthma, hay fever and other allergies is known, he concluded, it may be possible to work out a method of controlling abnormal histamine production and thus checking the diseases...
...fine spring-fever day in 1929 a high-keyed, hawk-nosed, 28-year-old publisher named George Macy paid a well-plotted call on a Wall Street broker named Jack O. (for nothing) Straus. Publisher Macy was in search of an angel. He outlined for Broker Straus a heavenly publishing scheme: limited editions. "Wait here for me," said Straus. A few minutes later he reappeared, handed Macy a fistful of checks. They were for $1,000 each. To fellow brokers downstairs on the floor of the Stock Exchange he had merely whispered the compelling cantrip of the bulls...
...Hungary last week the Cabinet fell (and rose again four days later) as a result of demonstrations in Budapest by grab crazy mobs who did not think that Hungary's 4,800-square-mile grab was enough. In Sofia, Bulgaria, grab fever rose high at week's end, the 19th anniversary of the Treaty of Neuilly. Through Sofia's streets day before the anniversary milled a defiant crowd of 20,000 who demanded land back from Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece. Martial law was declared, firemen turned their hoses on demonstrators, 1,000 were arrested. Chances are that...