Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst outbreak of infantile paralysis in the state's history has struck down 195 people since Jan. 1; the worst previous record for the same period was last year's 73 cases. Hardest hit was the Rio Grande Valley...
...International Conference of American States, whose sessions had been so rudely interrupted by the outbreak, moved to the suburb of Chapineros and resumed its meetings in a high-school library. Like the scene, the atmosphere had changed. Now the chief delegates met around a long table, with Colombia's new Foreign Minister Eduardo Zuleta Angel presiding at one end and two Colombian officers clutching Tommy guns at the other. At one side sat U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, his personal interpreter stage-whispering every word in translation, until the headphones system could be rigged up again...
Minimizing the possibility of a similar outbreak tomorrow, the Save the Peace Committee holds that an entirely different atmosphere now prevails. No organization has planned a counter-demonstration at its projected "non-political" meeting, the groups spokesmen have declared...
...meat supply is faced with a still greater threat-an invasion of the dread foot & mouth disease.* The worst outbreak (1914-16) forced the U.S. to slaughter and burn or bury (in quicklime) 175,000 U.S. animals before it was licked. The next time the battle may not be won-even at such cost. Said Dr. M. R. Clarkson, Department of Agriculture scientist: "If the disease ever gets across the Rio Grande, it would cost the U.S. at least $1 billion a year. It will affect all parts of the livestock industry, and it would be almost impossible to check...
Reports of an outbreak of internal upsets, which nervous Freshmen laid to Lima beans served in the Monday evening Union meal, dribbled in from the Yard last night, but Dr. Andrew W. Contratto, physician in the Department of Hygiene, declared that no stricken undergraduates had turned up at Stillman Infirmary...