Word: warne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Electric Co. last week proposed the use of the thousands of miles of U.S. high-tension electric power lines in civilian defense. The network could be used for large-scale air-raid warnings, could control colored lights to warn air-raid wardens, start pumps at pumping stations in case of fires, operate traffic signals, give telephone service in remote areas where telephone lines do not reach and cannot now be built...
Even so, Dr. Elliott Joslin of Harvard, probably the No. 1 U.S. diabetes expert, and Statistician Louis Dublin of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. warn that the rise in diabetic death is real. For insulin neither cures nor prevents diabetes. It has saved the lives of most diabetics under 45, prolonged the lives of those over 45. But insulin, observes Dublin, does not confer immortality. Sooner or later diabetes becomes complicated with other diseases like pneumonia, cancer, hardening of the arteries, etc. Diabetics are especially susceptible to gangrene (the tiniest infections are dangerous) since their blood vessels are often blocked with...
...death of a Moslem police inspector sounded another warning of communal riots. Police had orders to warn crowds to disperse, then use tear gas, then ironbound lathees, then, as a last resort, to fire. Student demonstrators tried to confiscate all hats and neckties-symbols of Western domination-worn by Indians and Europeans in Bombay. Then they seized topees, burned them merrily in street-corner bonfires. This week, with rioting still sporadic, the pressure of an Indian National Congress party boycott and a general slowdown of the war effort faced the British...
...people's man, Pedro Ernesto watched fearfully while the fascist Integralist Party waxed strong and bold under the nose of Vargas. Joining the socialistic Allianca Nacional Libertadora, Pedro Ernesto got wind of an army revolt it was planning and hurried over to Getulio to warn him. No traitor to the Allianca, Pedro Ernesto advised Vargas to nip its revolt in the bud by combining forces in a popular front. But fiercely anti-Communist Vargas smashed the revolt. Army bigwigs clamored for Pedro Ernesto's head...
...potentialities of the Devens team are totally unknown to the Crimson coaches and managers, but the soldiers warn that they will throw the best men they can gather into the meet which may or may not spell disaster for the Crimson. One thing is sure, it will probably be no draw but a smashing victory for one side or the other...