Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Auto road-racing is an old fever with Europeans. Americans have found it less contagious, but since the war a lot of them have been getting the bug. Last week some 125,000 people piled into Watkins Glen, N.Y. to see the Third U.S. Grand Prix-and the first race ever sponsored in the U.S. by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile. They took home memories of flashing, underslung, overpowered sport cars roaring down the straightaways at 130 m.p.h. They also took home memories of death...
With one big rush, the stock market last week wiped out the last of its losses caused by the Korean war-and then some. In the closing session of the week, the landing at Inchon pushed it still higher in a fever of trading that reached 820,000 shares in the last hour. Trading had soared past 2,000,000 shares for three successive days, and boosted the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial stocks by 5.04 points...
Talk with Angels. In his early, field-service days, Dr. Dyer fought bubonic plague in Louisiana and Texas, pellagra in South Carolina, and World War I's influenza in Massachusetts. He standardized scarlet fever toxin and antitoxin, which took much of the panic out of a once-dreaded disease. Dr. Dyer doubts that his preparations are ever used nowadays, for antibiotics have almost finished the job he started...
...power faction, clever Laureano Gómez, 61, took his inauguration in full stride. He pledged non-violent democratic government, but claimed that the state of siege was still necessary to preserve peace. Said he: "We'll give the patient aspirin as long as the fever continues." The Liberals, Gómez said, "won't recognize me. I respect their point of view. For them I am not President, so naturally I cannot appoint them [to my government...
...cars in five years; used-car dealers were once again displaying new "used" autos at $500 and more above list prices. "Scare buying" of all consumer goods kept spreading; U.S. department-store sales jumped 21% in a week. In New Bedford, Mass., a telephone operator who caught the fever drew out her savings to buy a sewing machine which she did not know how to operate and a spinet piano which she could not play, as well as a portable radio and an outdoor barbecue...