Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What had caused the belated outbreak? U.S. Public Health Service epidemiologists refused even to guess. About flu epidemics they know only one thing: they are always unpredictable...
...Bock declared that cases in this vicinity have been few and mild, but he advised early action to prevent an outbreak of the kind that is currently taking place in the Middle West...
...sent Schickert and four other paste producers to jail. That seemed to have ended the paste racket; reports of deaths due to the paste promptly declined. But last month Food & Drug's watchful inspectors got word. of a new paste menace, worriedly set out to trace the new outbreak to its source...
Says Toynbee (near the end of the one-volume edition): "This chapter itself was written on the eve of the outbreak of the General War of 1939-45 for readers who had already lived through the General War of 1914-18, and it was recast for republication on the morrow of the ending of the second of these two world wars within one lifetime by the invention and employment of a bomb in which a newly contrived release of atomic energy has been directed by man to the destruction of human life and works on an unprecedented scale...
Military authorities tonight said they "frankly expect" an early outbreak by the lrgunists...