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Still to be tried on a mass scale are new typhus vaccines which have been produced independently by breeding Rickettsiae on chicken eggs, both by Harvard's famed Bacteriologist Hans Zinsser and by Dr. Herald Rea Cox of the U. S. Public Health Service. About 8,000 doses of this new vaccine already have been sent to Hungary...
When the Germans moved into Poland last fall, they lugged with them portable shower baths, ran farm motors to make steam for delousing Polish prisoners. Because of these thorough precautions, there has been no large-scale typhus epidemic in louse-ridden Poland, although the disease has flickered there, as it has in China, for many years. Warsaw has suffered from typhoid fever, a disease quite different from typhus, transmitted by typhoid bacilli which lodge in human excrement, food, water...
Public Trust. Mass-Observation is an organization founded three years ago in Britain by a young biologist and a young poet. Part social club, part scientific society, its members with the aid of some paid employes conduct on an amateur scale something vaguely resembling FORTUNE'S survey. They publish their findings in a periodical titled Us. In a recent issue Us reported that "mistrust of the newspapers is a commonplace with every section of the population...
...feature of Export's proposed full-scale operation: a non-stop run to Lisbon in 20½ hours without stop at Horta where Pan Am clippers now run into frequent delays because of rough water. Pan Am's contention that present equipment did not justify such a long haul was waved aside by Examiner Leasure. One of his points: Pan Am itself will run non-stop New York-Lisbon service when it gets delivery on six new modified Boeing clippers. His recommendation on other Pan Am objections...
Directed by Richard Whittemore '40 in the proper technique of mountain climbing, five actors must be able to scale the 22-foot high stage platform representing the mountain peak...