Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commonly called from its most obvious symptom) was regarded as a disease of wartime camps with poor sanitation; peacetime outbreaks were relatively few and usually limited to overcrowded institutions such as orphanages, mental hospitals and prisons. Today, inflammation of the liver as a result of invasion by a virus is becoming a major health problem in the workaday, peacetime...
...Marxist virus that rusts his soul; his current contact with the priest; economic difficulties that worry his spirit, and a bitter life . . . coupled with an indifference for any institution-be it the church or the state-that does not solve his most pressing problem...
...similar rise in the price of cocoa, has been mainly responsible for the rise in the overall Dow-Jones commodity index, which last week was the highest in three years. The cocoa rise was caused not only by increased demand and bad weather but by the "Swollen Shoot" (a virus disease) cocoa-tree blight in Africa. As the price went from 30? to almost 60? a lb. in a year, the Government considered releasing some of its vast stocks of butter to users of cocoa butter for candy, but gave up the idea, since butter's low melting point...
...keep the Negro in a status not far removed from slavery. There came to power in the South politicians such as "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, governor and later Senator from South Carolina, who publicly proclaimed that the Negro was biologically inferior to the white man. When "inoculated with the virus of equality," said Tillman, the Negro became "a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour...
...chapters of parasites and fungi are by no means all of the Agriculture study. "Phony Peach and Peach Mosaic" not only gets to the heart of the annoying fruit virus problem, but also contains some rather caustic remarks about "the phony peach project of 1929." Other chapters of importance include: "Powdery Mildew of Apples," "The Rot That Attacks 2,000 Species," "Stony Pit of Pears," and "Hazards to Onions in Many Areas...