Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigate the cases of 30 San Franciscans who had died of acute gastritis or kidney ailments within the fortnight. The puzzle was only partly solved when a barrel of pure sodium fluoride was found among the soda barrels in Rosenthal's store. As excitement reached fever pitch, the city toxicologist announced that Albert Perry and daughter had died of natural causes after all and a restaurant dishwasher swallowed a spoonful of soda which had not come from Rosenthal's, died in convulsions...
...glass of cow's milk and goat's milk. But the one thing a Mexican President needs to rule his fermenting country is abounding, virile health. Last week, surrounded by enemies, President Cardenas to his disgust felt sick as a dog. Newshawks were told he had Malta fever, so named because British Navy men stationed in the Mediterranean once got it from the milk of Maltese goats...
...sickness and doctors. Last week he ordered that no bulletins on his condition be issued, but his fellow members of Mexico's ruling National Revolutionary Party were already eagerly discussing a temporary President while Cardenas took a long rest somewhere out of Mexico. Boning up on Malta fever. Cardenas' enemies found that it is properly called undulant fever, and that its germ, the Micrococcus melitensis, can be got from drinking raw milk or even from patting diseased cattle. Chances against Cardenas dying of it were 50-to-1 but he might be sick with it for from four...
Last week, having run a month and eased off. the Malta fever, it was announced, suddenly attacked Cardenas again in force. He was sweating with it, his joints swelled, he ached, his temperature was high and he felt weak. He had lost about 33 lb. To suggestions that he take a convalescent trip, he snorted. Last week he arose, drove to the San Jacinto suburb of Mexico City and spent two hours patting more cattle at the National Cattle Exhibition...
...five planes, that it refused to fly passengers behind untrained men, that it would quit operations at once. To General Mujica went many a pleading letter from the company's 225 Mexican employes, who feared losing their jobs. To President Lazaro Cardenas, too miserable with Malta fever to be interested, went the thanks "of Mexico's Association of Military Pilots...