Word: illness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read treatises on precious stones, used jewelers' tools to break up or remake stolen jewelry. To avoid the underworld markdown on hot goods, he printed up cards which bore his name and the legend "Felix P. Jacobson Co., 5 South Wabash, Chicago, Ill."-an active firm whose name he had simply appropriated. He posed as a legitimate salesman and always demanded list prices for stones...
Last week the case of the strange salt suddenly became more serious. A doctor in Ann Arbor, Mich, reported to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, that a patient was critically ill, apparently from lithium chloride. Two days later three doctors from Cleveland's Crile Clinic sent in another report: two patients (one 70, the other 60) had died and five others were ill, apparently from the salt. Dr. Fishbein asked newspapers and radio stations to issue warnings. Planning to reclassify lithium chloride as a drug instead of as a special dietary food...
Scheele said that there are only 30,481 beds available in the United States for the care of chronically ill patients. Yet within the past few years, he stated, a widespread movement has arisen to awaken interest in chronic illness problems...
...C.I.O.'s purge of Communist-line union bosses was beginning to get rough. President Phil Murray had ordered the huge United Auto Workers to swallow up the little, leftist Farm Equipment Workers. Last week in East Moline, Ill., the first bite proved pretty indigestible...
Into the depot at Aurora, Ill. last week glided a diesel locomotive with two spanking new streamlined, bubble-domed coaches. Out of one stepped Ralph Budd, 69, the highballing president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, who had done more than any other railroader to make such dream trains a reality...