Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile voyage to Montevideo, Uruguay, worn Captain Gainard came down with influenza. He was ill in his bunk in that port when informed that another sit-down strike had taken place. In sympathy with a local longshoremen's strike, the Algic's crew refused to turn the winches. Too weak to handle the situation himself, Captain Gainard put through a 5,000-mile telephone call to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission in Washington. Boss Kennedy instantly sent off a message authorizing the captain to put the ringleaders in irons...
...from a few thousand to several hundred thousand dollars. To scholars doing advanced scientific work it provided 222 grants. It provided 700 fellowships for post-graduate training. It conducted research through a field staff of 70 public health experts on yellow fever, malaria, hookworm disease, tuberculosis, yaws, diphtheria, schistosomiasis. influenza. Its money flowed into 53 foreign countries from Scandinavia to Java. The agencies which it helped included 41 local and national governments, 44 educational institutions, 20 research institutes, two libraries, 23 councils, associations, societies and commissions, mostly national or international...
...other bacterial diseases (TIME, Dec. 28, et seq.). Last week conservative bacteriologists of the National Institute of Health announced that this astounding new drug seemed to be a cure for an entirely separate class of diseases, namely, those caused by viruses. Among virus diseases are the common cold, influenza, infantile paralysis, parrot fever. Another disease due to a virus is "benign lymphocytic choriomeningitis," which was recognized as a distinct ailment only a few years ago because almost anything may cause its chief symptoms (headache, vomiting, slight fever). From a case of this lymphocytic choriomeningitis. Dr. Charles Armstrong and associates...
Died. Dr. Louis Dapples, 69, banker, president of the international Nestle Chocolate interests; of influenza; in Genoa, Italy...
Three days later in his west side Manhattan hotel, weak from influenza and nervous collapse, aged Critic Henderson stopped writing an essay on Pianist Josef Hofmann, placed a .38 revolver in his mouth and with one bullet completed the ending of an epoch in U. S. letters...