Word: soo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school kids in the Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie (pop. 32,000) were having their heads examined last week. And with good reason: the Soo had been hit by a raging epidemic of tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp). Of 5,712 elementary schoolchildren, 1,300 had ringworm; so had 150 preschool moppets and 64 youths and adults. On streets and playgrounds, every bobbing head was topped with a white cotton skullcap, compulsory for schoolchildren, strongly recommended for all others. It was the severest ringworm epidemic ever recorded in Canada...
Rickenbacker became a headliner. In five years of trying, he never came in better than tenth in the soo-mile race at Indianapolis, but he set a new world speed record-134 m.p.h.-with a Blitzen-Benz at Daytona Beach. When the U.S. entered World War I he was making $40,000 a year, was one of three top U.S. drivers and a prime celebrity...