Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient with chronic symptoms that are hard to diagnose should be suspected of having chronic undulant fever. That is, if he has ever drunk unpasteurized milk, as who has not? This is the conclusion which two Indiana small-town doctors, Neal Davis of Lowell (pop. 1,450) and Dan L. Urschel of Mentone (pop. 730), reached independently after seeing many such cases. Nobody paid much attention to this mild form of undulant fever until Drs. Urschel and Davis began calling attention to it in the Indiana State Medical Association Journal...
...political wiseacres, taking the pulse of the people, were sure. Travelers who talked politics up & down the Midwest were especially struck by the resurgence of Willkie talk. One such was the New York Times's Turner Catledge, who was surprised to find that Willkie could apparently have Indiana's favorite-son nomination any time he wanted it (TIME...
Equally gloomy was Maryland's U.S. Senator Millard E. Tydings, speaking before the Indiana State Bar Association. After the war, Tydings predicted, 20 million defense workers will be laid off overnight, the national debt will approximate $250 billion ($7,500 for each family). The Senator's antidote: as soon as possible get the Federal Government out of business and decrease its participation in unemployment relief...
...Besides the other three authors of B2H2, the teams include, from the Senate: Missouri's Truman, Michigan's Ferguson, South Carolina's Maybank; from the House: Minnesota's Judd, Pennsylvania's Wright, Maine's Hale, Georgia's Ramspeck, Oklahoma's Monroney, Indiana's La Follette and Massachusetts' Herter-some of the best brains in Congress...
...Indiana-born Bruce Rogers (TIME, Apr. 3, 1939) has been of modest means all his working life. Says he: "I don't make money out of my work." The obvious reason is that Rogers has clung to the independence in which he can pursue the highest standards of craftsmanship. In 1912 he left his job as director of fine printing and limited editions at Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press, has held few full-time jobs since, except for eight years' association with the late William E. Rudge (to whom Paragraphs is dedicated). A widower, he now spends...