Word: liberia
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...Strong, who conducted a survey of the Republic of Liberia two years ago where he observed a similar disease, was selected to head the Guatemala expedition with the backing of the Department of Tropical Medicine and the medical department of the United Fruit Company. It was discovered that infection was transmitted by several varieties of coffee flies that were carriers of the adult Onchecereae, present in the tuners found on the heads of the natives. Once injected by the bite of the fly, the parasites multiply and the young "microfilariae" circulate through the lymphatics, causing irritation, particularly...
...Shocking indictment!" cried U. S. Secretary of State Stimson after reading the report prepared 17 months ago by a League of Nations commission investigating Liberia. What shocked Statesman Stimson more than financial troubles, insanitary conditions or administrative incompetence was the Commission's discovery that the Republic, founded as a refuge for American freed slaves, was practicing slavery itself...
Died. Rev. William Orville Shepard, 69, Bishop of the Mediterranean Area of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Southern Europe, Northern Africa, Liberia); in Paris...
...came accidentally across wireless waves, he took out a patent but, seeing no use at the time for this "etheric force," forgot it until he sold his right to Marconi in 1903. A need was his cue to start working; as when his friend. Rubberman Harvey Firestone sent to Liberia for materials. Forthwith Edison started his last experiments: U. S. rubber production from golden...
...distinction of membership in the League of Nations costs a country's treasury anywhere from $45,000 a year (for little nations like Costa Rica or Liberia) to $450,000 a year (Britain, France and other great powers). Five years ago frugal Costa Rica decided that even $45,000 was more than a League membership was worth, withdrew in a huff when she was dunned for nonpayment of dues. Mexico thought it was worth while. Fat Foreign Minister Genaro Estrada, who surprised his friends last year by marrying a Mexico City socialite, cabled formal acceptance to President of the Assembly...