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First came Q fever (so called because it was identified in Queensland, Australia, in 1935), a distant and comparatively harmless relative of typhus. Its victims, usually stockyard or dairy workers, develop flu-like symptoms. By week's end 116 cases had been reported...
Because of the longstanding dispute, El Chamizal's 600 acres are just thinly-settled river bottoms, with a shanty town, a few small packinghouses, a stockyard and a high school. But El Paso wants its title cleared so that El Chamizal can be developed. Roughhewn Texas Congressman Ewing Thomason, who wants to put a spanking new federal building there and build a new international bridge to Juarez, reportedly had President Truman's promise last week that he would keep El Chamizal in mind in Mexico City...
Then came word from Washington that OPA needed more time to prepare new price schedules; stockyard ceilings would not take effect until Aug. 29, with slaughterhouse ceilings following on Sept. 1, retail ceilings on Sept. 9. Result: a thunderous stampede to beat the deadline...
...when racial antagonisms made the district doubly grim, Chicago's shrewd, liberal Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil marshaled his stockyard priests to help a new-established Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council fight them down. Soon Bishop Sheil and his aides had playgrounds and young people's clubs going in place of gang fights. The Catholic Church now plays a major role in determining the sentiment of the district-the factor which, in the long run, may well determine the outcome of the dispute. But the Church has rivals: last week, while Catholic priests tramped with the U.P.W.A...
Touraine Room--Most of the battalion, not wary of crowded places and all that goes with them, assembled here last Saturday night. The place was packed like a stockyard. But there wasn't much drink stirring afoot. It seems everyone had picked out the same place to meet his friends--that's all. Max Kirschbaum even thought for a minute that he saw his mother here but no luck...