Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sayre's fever chart was normal (he was suffering from two painful slipped disks). But his sales charts showed the results of some remarkable medicine. In the first half of 1954, while most other appliance-makers were barely holding even, Norge sales of washing machines, driers, refrigerators, stoves and other major "white goods" were 50% ahead of last year. In July they were 72% higher, in August 126%. With Norge in the middle of a $6,100,000 expansion program, Sayre expects sales to hit $75 million this year, $100 million...
...Researchers at Michigan State Health Laboratories and doctors in Mexico re ported a new antibiotic, Synnematin, as a prompt and effective cure for typhoid fever. Hitherto. Chloromycetin had been by far the best drug against typhoid. ¶ Britain's Medical Press suggested a new feature of social medicine. "The house wife . . . cannot present her husband with a medical certificate and take a few weeks' sick leave; she has to carry on ... until she is literally unable to stagger around the house." Since a woman could use sick pay to hire help while she got a rest, the journal...
Most of the city remained malarial swampland for close to a century. As recently as 1910, Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon protested against putting the Lincoln Memorial where it now stands, on the grounds that it would surely collapse of loneliness and ague-fever. Only in the past 50 years has the capital begun to live up to L'Enfant's plans...
...work performed or supported, again we believe that our two foundations have contributed immeasurable benefits to our country. We mention, but do not emphasize, that a very large portion of our funds has been spent in the United States. We would suppose that a 35-year campaign against yellow fever was pro-American and that those who gave their lives in the foundation's successful fight against this pestilence served America, as well as the rest of mankind, as truly as did the soldier who gave his life in battle ... It does not diminish America's gain...
Nearly a month later, a Los Angeles doctor stopped in to see an ailing patient. He quickly spotted some disturbing symptoms : high fever, intestinal pain, diarrhea. He ordered analysis of blood and stool samples. Back came confirmation of his worst fears: typhoid fever. Next day he found similar symptoms in a second patient. Thoroughly alarmed, he notified the Department of Health...