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...William Wilson Jameson, Chief Medical Officer of the British Ministry of Health, told Britons last week that four months of Blitzkrieg conditions had resulted only in an "infinitesimal" increase in disease. Scarlet fever and diphtheria had actually decreased and the number of pneumonia cases had grown but a trifle. The notable disease increase was in cerebrospinal meningitis, with 12,500 cases in 1940 as against...
...Other well-known women doctors: Dr. Gladys Dick of Chicago who discovered the scarlet fever germ, famed Princeton Pediatrician Sara Josephine Baker, founder of New York City's Bureau of Child Hygiene, Columbia University Surgeon Barbara Bartlett Stimson, Philadelphia Public Health Expert Martha Tracy, Head of the American Women's Hospitals Esther Pohl Lovejoy, and Chicago's Surgeon Bertha Van Hoosen (TIME...
...little oval room was hot. The score of frail, wobbly, gilt chairs were jammed close together on the deep scarlet carpet, to the left of the plain, dark wooden desk...
...with their three .30-calibre machine guns, a heavier (.50-calibre) machine gun or a cannon jutting from ports and turrets. On the shoulders of their dungareed, helmeted gargoyles was the Army's newest emblem: a black tank tread, superimposed on a tricolored triangle of yellow (for cavalry), scarlet (for field artillery) and blue (for infantry). For tanks are only the armored hearts of a modern, mechanized division; each has in addition a regiment of motorized (truck-borne) infantry, another of motor-drawn artillery, and a profusion of ex-cavalry officers...
...weary veteran of U. S. railroading is the bankrupt, 108-year-old Erie. In her gilded years she fell in with bad company-flamboyant Jim Fisk, piratical Jay Gould, pious Daniel Drew. Together they manipulated her back and forth from bonanza to bankruptcy, got her known as the "Scarlet Lady of Wall Street." Exhausted, the Erie had collapsed three times by 1895. Then she reformed. Under Van Sweringen control, she became a respectably operated road. But her capital structure never really recovered from Jay Gould's attentions, and she never again paid a dividend on the common...