Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killer of U.S. babies is whooping cough, which takes a heavier toll than scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and infantile paralysis combined. Last week, doctors at the American Medical Association meeting in Atlantic City heard reports on 1) a new way to prevent the disease in newborn infants; 2) the serious mental effects of whooping cough...
...Harlow must begin the rebuilding process all over again, starting almost from scratch. Of the four or five outstanding underclassmen who won letters last fall only Captain Don Forte has survived the accelerated academic program and will be back for another season. In addition to the terrific June graduation toll which took Chub Peabody, Loren MacKinney, Vern Miller, Dick Pflster, Captain Franny Lee, George Heiden, Tom Gardiner, etc., Juniors Don McNicol, Jack Morgan, and Johnny Page will play no more football for Harvard...
...seek out men who know what has been done in British waters, who by the spirit they possess will energize and inspire the whole campaign." To feed U.S. fears were harrowing ac counts of survivors landed from torpedoed ships at ports from New London to Key West, a May toll of 15 ships sunk in the Gulf alone, the spread of U-boat depredations to the coast of good-neighborly Brazil. U.S. papers, which tabulated their own totals (the Navy issues none for publication), reported that at least 241 ships had been lost off the U.S. coasts since war began...
High & Low. But only a few hours later, Franklin Roosevelt reported on the Battle of the Atlantic. Shipyards, he declared, had performed a "near-miracle." Though submarines had taken heavy toll, "that problem is being solved...
...sickness in three to six months when injected twice a week. General Sicé's biggest job was persuading the natives to take the treatment. He also organized fly-killing squads. With this curative and preventive program, in 17 years General Sicé brought down the sleeping-sickness toll from 2,000,000 victims, or about 80% of the native population in one-third of French Equatorial Africa, to less than...