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...seed of epidemics has multiplied and spread during the war. In twelve continental European countries, incidence of cerebrospinal meningitis, poliomyelitis, typhoid, dysentery, diphtheria and scarlet fever has more than doubled since war began. But as the world had less disease in 1939 than in 1914, infection is still low compared with...
...give maximum effectiveness to the long fluorescent lamps running the length of the building, while walls, though also light, would be slightly darker than the ceiling. Machinery, formerly only gray, would be painted with a newly developed warm color except for danger spots, which would be a flaring scarlet...
...Armored Divisions. All armored division men wear the same gaudy, triangular patch; only the division number varies. The yellow in the patch stands for the cavalrymen, the scarlet for the artillerymen, the blue for the infantrymen; men of these three branches were originally thrown together to make up the first U.S. Armored Force, in July...
Chilly, musty, 875-year-old Christ Cathedral, Canterbury, glittered with medieval pageantry. Trumpeters, clad in blue and gold, blew fanfares; bishops paced in scarlet robes. Finally, the two-hour ritual, older than the Tales of Chaucer, reached its solemn climax...
...stick to one set of symptoms, 3) "Don't tell the doctor too much!" Recipes for twelve diseases follow. Samples: ¶ "Artificial skin inflammation, . . . Take three times daily . . . one teaspoonful of a 10% solution of iodine potassium in a glass of water . . . until a scarlet-like affection of the skin results. . . . Iodine potassium is a completely harmless medicine...