Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collins fought to outlaw slot machines, for higher state taxes on dog-track gambling, for higher educational standards and better mosquito control to hold down that old Southern malady, malaria. "I can hardly remember a summer when I wasn't sick with the chills and fever of malaria," Collins said last week. "I used to drink Dr. Groves's tasteless chill tonic by the barrel. I guess it was all that pulled a lot of us through. Well, when I became a legislator I got a chance to work for remedial legislation. Now there are doctors who have...
...thousands of new voters, urged on politically by the stir of conflict and prodded legally by the risk of a fine for failure to register, rushed to put their names on the polling lists. In the first four days, 1,200,000 new voters were recorded, and election fever gripped the nation. By week's end, 28 "national" parties and some 700 local "lists" had entered a total of 5,000 candidates for the Assembly's 622 seats...
...Without Fever. Through the Depression, El Paso was kept alive by the Arizona copper industry, then spread to the growing cities of Phoenix and Tucson...
Kayser grew worried about his men hunting gas on the Colorado Plateau while everyone else was panting after uranium. '' "If you didn't want them to get the fever," says Kayser, "you inoculated them with a little of it." The inoculation consisted, of forming a new company, Rare Metals Corp. of America, 55% owned by El Paso, 18% by Western Natural Gas Co. (an I affiliate) and 27% by officers and employees of the companies. Rare Metals opened a mercury plant in Idaho this fall and will have a reduction mill finished in Arizona late next spring...
...Named for Army Surgeon William Gorgas (1854-1920), who fought yellow fever in the Panama Canal Zone...