Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward other neighbors Perón's weapons were different, his aims the same. A month and a half ago Argentina abruptly closed the Paraguayan frontier. The reason given: a yellow-fever outbreak in Paraguay. It turned out to be malaria, but Paraguayans got the point, agreed to a customs union with Argentina. Bolivia was already on the hook: the Perón-minded Villarroel government felt strong enough to crack down on the Democratic Front opposition, jail leaders and handcuff the press. Chile, with a long Argentine frontier, read that Perón had come...
...lava flow cannot be dammed, but in some cases it can be diverted by artificially created channels. Mauna Loa's last serious outbreak in 1935-and a minor one in 1942-was shunted away from Hilo by bombs from Army planes...
...case in point: a smallpox outbreak in Seattle (TIME, April 8), touched off by a soldier just back from Japan. Last week San Francisco's Director of Public Health, Dr. Jacob Casson Geiger, cried out that the danger of airborne epidemics is real and imminent...
...area of the Far Eastern mainland. Not only had they failed to withdraw on Feb. 1, as they had promised, but there were reports that the Red Army was rebuilding Manchurian installations which it had dismantled in preparation for departure. The Red Army's presence encouraged a new outbreak of Chinese Communist skirmishes with Kuomintang troops in Manchuria...
Joseph Clark Grew '02, former Assistant Secretary of State and United States Ambassador to Japan from 1932 until the outbreak of war, will speak at the Faculty Club's annual dinner on Tuesday February 26. This meeting will be open only to members and their families. Of one of Grew's last official visits to the University, in May, 1948, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Law by President Conant...