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Alaska has one of the highest death rates in the world from tuberculosis, eight times that of the U.S. Of Alaska's estimated 90,000 population, at least 4,000 (and probably more) have T.B. To care for them, Alaska has only 289 hospital beds, one sanatorium, only one qualified T.B. assistant in the health department...
...about one-tenth of its annual budget, for an anti-T.B. campaign; its able Governor, Dr. Ernest Gruening (pronounced greening) had declared a state of emergency. Now would Congress meet the request of the Office of Indian Affairs for $2,775,000 to start building a 200-bed sanatorium...
...capital structure deflated, its subsidiaries reduced by sales, mergers and liquidations from 179 to 46, it was thriving as a normal, healthy holding company. But neither normal nor healthy was Promoter Hopson; jailed for mail fraud and income-tax evasion, he went insane, is now in a New York sanatorium...
...Brazilian Embassy in Berlin, she could get out of Europe. She walked most of 325 miles from Warsaw to Berlin, slept on the roadside, scarcely ever ate, and does not know how many weeks it took her. But she got to Rio. There she was put in a sanatorium, exhausted and sick. She got word that her husband, her parents and a brother had been killed in Poland. She did not go near a piano for months...
...mother, she told Slick, had first drunk herself into a stupor with crème de cacao and curaçao, then ran away with a traveling salesman. Thereupon her father began to lose his wits, finally cut his throat with a razor. Her grandfather was popped into a sanatorium for alcoholics; her uncle still languished in the state penitentiary. The relatives who raised Susan were "a whole gibbering pack of unknowns, all drunken, all semi-criminal, all diseased." Prudish Susan was so overcome by the "beautiful luxury of grief" in telling this hideous tale that she burst into tears...