Word: toowoomba
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These-and the industrious bustle of a hundred once-sleepy towns with names like Toowoomba, Yeerongpilly and Cool-angatta-were tangible evidence last week of the biggest news to come out of the South Pacific vastness since the end of the war. The news: Australia, rawest and least favored by nature of the English-speaking countries, is savoring a real prosperity and discovering a national maturity...
...will, without passport or visa. But night & day work during the Minnesota epidemic of 1946 had undermined her health. Her right side paralyzed by Parkinson's disease, Sister Kenny went back to Queensland, longing for a last look at the jacaranda trees in bloom around her home in Toowoomba. There, this week, she died, aged 66. She had lived to see her jacarandas blossom and to see her life work bearing fruit around the world...
Died. Sister Elizabeth Kenny, 66, Australian nurse who discovered a new treatment for infantile paralysis (hot packs and massage); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Toowoomba, Australia (see MEDICINE...
...Sister Elizabeth Kenny told reporters in Sydney, Australia that her 40-year fight against polio was moving inexorably toward an end. Said she: "I am unwell and incurably so. I only hope I will be spared the time to come home again. I am very happy in my beautiful Toowoomba home among my own relatives and the people among whom I made my discoveries on poliomyelitis. I want to end my days at home...