Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hamburg is basically worse off than any big German city. Once Europe's greatest port, it throve because of two industries: shipping and shipbuilding...
...once, Germany's great wounded port stirred to new life and spirit. Some 65,000 shipyard workers might get jobs. Ship operators snapped out of their sulks, began buying old freighters and drafting blueprints for new ones. First construction job: Hamburg Orient Line ordered six small freighters for Middle East runs...
...Marlowe, he lives in Manhattan, paints mostly from memory. "When I was young," he says, "I painted outdoors and after three or four hours I was lost. But the more I am getting older the more I can paint without a subject. I made a drawing from nature for Port Jefferson (see cut), but in the painting itself the details are different. The spirit, though, is the same...
...shaped micro-organisms which the doctors call coliform bacteria. Usually these little "bugs" do no harm; in fact, their presence is considered normal. But every now & then, infants dying of epidemic diarrhea are found to harbor coliform bacteria which seem to be abnormal. Last week, every baby born in Port Huron Hospital, Mich., and every patient admitted, was being tested for a suspected killer of this type which had been isolated there, for the first time...
...Port Huron's experience seemed just like that of many hospitals,* but the result offered hope that other such outbreaks might be arrested or avoided. Last August, babies born in Port Huron's red brick, ivy-covered hospital and sent home as normal began to be readmitted with diarrhea. Some died. Laboratory tests indicated none of the three commonest causes of the disease (bacteria of the Shigella or Salmonella groups, or a virus). In October the disease invaded the hospital's nursery. To cut down cross-infection, babies were kept in their mothers' rooms...