Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disturbed by the flu epidemic in London: "Everybody is coming down with it, you know. It's really only a very light kind of flu, keeps you in bed only four or five days. The only really bad part is that you get up with a very low blood pressure. . . . The aftereffect is really alarming, old boy. Understand you're getting a similar epidemic here. Better watch the blood pressure, you know...
...British, said Tony Biddle, had found a cure for the flu, an old and trusted remedy: anyone who shows the slightest symptoms is given a healthy shot of whiskey...
Chicago's gift to Boston, Charley Wilson, is currently languishing in Sick Bay as a flu victim. . .Things we miss: Vice-Ensign Witt's daily dash to report at morning colors. . .Serious note: Sounds like a real break this station is getting in cinema attractions . . .pre-release showings of top pictures in the Music Building at microscopic prices. . .Company Dog will get their look-in Sunday evenings. . .good deal, there...
...shiver ran through London last week. The great city, which had come through the blitz without an epidemic, had an outbreak of flu. The disease was mild but it spread like wildfire. Thousands of offices worked at half-staff, the Belgian Ambassador was sick abed, 100 London Bus Company employes and a dozen M.P.s stayed home. And in other parts of Britain the fever raged-the Bristol transport services and many war plants were partially paralyzed. The last report (for the week ending Nov. 27), from cities comprising half Britain's population, showed 375 deaths, more than three times...
...also had the flu last week. In Texas, Minnesota, Virginia and South Carolina, thousands were down with it. In North Chicago and Waukegan alone, 2,600 people were sick...