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...sent to a fort in Montana, later was ordered to the Point as an instructor. But life there was too dull. Work was about to start on the Panama Canal, and Wood, scenting excitement and opportunity, got himself shifted to the job. A week after he arrived, yellow fever downed most of the Canal Commission's top men. Lieut. Wood, then 26, who had "no idea of letting myself come down with yellow fever," was put in charge of several hundred men to build barracks for 10,000 laborers...
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...Harold Le Claire Ickes stopped off in Washington to take in the sights and to see if, by chance, anybody in the New Deal wanted to pay off a political debt. During the campaign, Ickes had worked hard to organize Midwestern progressive Republicans for Franklin Roosevelt. But in the fever of preinauguration, nobody in the capital seemed to care-until Ickes bumped into an old friend who had connections. Next day Harold Ickes got a summons from the President-elect. "Mr. Ickes," said Franklin Roosevelt, "you and I have been speaking the same language for the past 20 years...
During the years Author Stead lived in New York, she caught the big-city fever. Her book is full of its talk and humor, its weather and character. She has observed the manners of drug clerks, the delights of walking Manhattan streets ("rich and tender with neon") on a spring night, the friendly chaos of lower Manhattan life. She has an especially good eye for the Gramercy Park neighborhood, that sedate mixture of mild Bohemia and dusty elegance, with poverty just a step away...
...Manhattan's East Side and in Algeria, taught Egypt how it might free itself from schistosomiasis-a disease caused by the blood fluke, carried by snails. It built the $8.000,000 Peking Union Medical College ("We must create the Johns Hopkins of China!" cried one trustee), studied scarlet fever in Rumania, malaria in Nicaragua, undulant fever in France, oroya fever in Peru, dengue fever on Guam. It set up a yellow fever commission under General W. C. Gorgas, and one of its doctors-Wilbur A. Sawyer-eventually found an effective vaccine...