Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnston's bold talk in Britain (TIME, Aug. 30) drew British fire even before he got home. Early last week the London press broke out in a rash of protest. Snapped the irascible Mirror: "Will Mr. Johnston please note that no government ... in this country is going to allow anyone to come along and buy up Great Britain at the back door." Said a letter to the Times: "What progress can be expected if the United States pursues a high tariff policy . . . and sets out to use her huge production power to export without taking payment in goods...
...have been sitting pretty on Dec. 7, 1941. It had 9,677 production-wise workers, a fat backlog of $242,000,000. But since that time Brewster has produced more trouble than planes. It had five changes of management (including the Navy, which ran it for a month), a rash of suits (TIME, May 10), a series of slowdowns (although Brewster has a union contract highly favorable to U.A.W.-C.I.O.). In a plane-hungry world, Brewster managed to lose $1,436,000 in 1942. Production of dive-bombers (Bermudas for the British, Buccaneers for the U.S. Navy) bogged down. Draft...
...suffered not only kidney damage but brain injury from sulfathiazole; two majors in the Army Medical Corps last winter stated that seven out of 38 patients had kidney complications after sulfadiazine. Some of the danger signals are: headache, body ache, low urine output, high temperature, yellowish eyeballs, pallor and rash...
...Russia's Siberian bases. This fear increased late last year, when the Russians drove back the Germans and the North African campaign turned against the Axis. The Japanese think and talk of war with Russia only in terms of Russian attack; the idea that Japan might be so rash as to attack the Soviet Union is never seriously considered by the Japanese people...
...fantastic patient's condition ran contrary to this theory. Even when the hospital restored his egg and wine diet, in an effort to bring his rash into full flower again, his cancer progressed. One possible explanation: perhaps the bacteria of his urinary tract infection were making biotin, sending enough into his blood to cancel stupendous quantities of avidin and feed the cancer besides...