Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poland. But diplomatic relations between Russia and the Polish Goyernment in Exile have been suspended for months, and neither side seems keen to renew them. Last week the Polish Cabinet called a meeting to discuss the situation, then called it off when Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk was bedded with the flu. Polish press comment took the general line that Poland would be glad to join up, provided the Russians would guarantee Poland's pre-1939 borders-a proposition which the Russians would probably regard as laughable...
...Angeles). About 1,000.000 people were sick, according to the A.P., but Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the A.M.A., upped the estimate to at least ten per cent of the population. A board of Philadelphia doctors averred that the virus causing this year's mild flu was not a dangerous one; they hedged by adding that this virus might pave the way for more dangerous germs six weeks hence. The Naval Research Laboratory at the University of California (TIME, July 26) reported that not one of 26 preparations they tried could prevent a mouse from getting...
...week ending Dec. 11. Some railways were still running on reduced schedules owing to the shortage of workers. A doctor in Parliament declared that, contrary to the lay impression, alcohol is not good medicine for the disease, and therefore no more grain need be allocated to whiskey production on flu's account...
...Germany they call flu Kellergrippe. One British expert thinks it got there by a roundabout plane ride from Britain to the U.S. to South America to Lisbon to Ber lin. He did not explain why the infection could not have gone directly from London, by parachuting flyer, to the Continent. Flu was reported by Swedish papers to have killed 2,000 Berliners last week...
Noel Coward, visiting Manhattan on his way to entertain South African military hospitals, was asked about a rumor of his engagement to Marina, Britain's beauteous, widowed Duchess of Kent (who was down with flu last week, like many of her countrymen-see p. 44). In clipped syllables he clipped the rumor: "Utterly idiotic...