Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fire In the Punjab, India, a subject wrote to the state fire brigade that his house was on fire. The fire chief acknowledged the letter, got official permission, called out the brigade, arrived at the scene of the fire, found that the citizen had built a new house on the site of the one that had burned down...
...victory of lost causes; it raised hopes which were never to be satisfied," it seemed that France had vanquished England, and that the hopes of the Irish exiles, of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," were to triumph. But the English fleet still ruled the seas, and French colonies in Canada and India were soon to be lost despite Fontenoy. In A Day of Battle, Sheean (Personal History) set himself the difficult task of both describing the brilliance of this victory and illustrating its historic unimportance...
...child whimpered at the burning pain in his heart and intestines. He was dying of beriberi, ancient Oriental disease. The chemist thrust a few drops of an extract from rice hulls between the child's lips. Almost instantly the boy revived, and young Chemist Robert Runnels Williams, India-born son of U. S. missionaries, knew that he had saved a life by means of a strange, almost unheard-of ingredient of food, a substance which in its impure state came to be called vitamin B (for beri-beri). At once he decided what course he would follow...
Primitive and scientific explanations aside, by last week 16,500 inhabitants of the northwestern mountains of India had died in a cholera epidemic. Frantic sanitarians had vaccinated 600,000 persons, doused thousands of wells with germicidal potassium permanganate to halt an epidemic which began the end of April. Nonetheless, the epidemic has spread northwesterly into Afghanistan...
This worries the sanitarians of the Western World. For from Northwestern India by way of Afghanistan spread the first epidemic of Asiatic cholera which Europe knew. It began in 1826, reached Russia in 1830, England in 1831. Another wave spread to Mecca, Egypt, England and, in 1832, to the U. S. Last of successive pandemics touched the U. S. as late as 1911, and the disease has been kept out of the country since only by close medical inspection of every sailor and traveler who enters a U. S. port...