Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most formidable hazards of the whole journey looms at the banks of the wide Taling River. Here the Communist line ends. On the river's opposite shore Nationalists stand guard. Whoever tries to wade, swim or boat across will be shot. This is a precaution against possible over-water attack by disguised Communists. The only unmolested transit is by way of the blasted railway bridge, a fearful half mile catwalk of twisted girders...
...American standards the center is crude indeed. Its restroom is bare earth covered with canvas to keep out the rain. The washroom is one pipe of running water. The cloakroom will mend patched garments, or exchange better rags for those beyond mending. A free milk line serves half a bowlful to each child under five; then, if the child does not vomit from an unaccustomed stomach, he may have another half bowlful...
...failed. His plantations succumbed to leaf rot. When Ford sold out for a nominal price to the Brazilian government, the Instituto Agronômico took over where he left off. Today Dr. Camargo has turned Fordlandia into a plantation for growing hardwood trees and cacao, and breeding water buffalo. But 90 miles downstream at Belterra, he has 2,225,000 healthy rubber trees growing...
Rats & Shaving Brushes. The P.H.S. was established in John Adams' administration, on July 16, 1798, to care for ailing seamen. Its job still begins at the water's edge. Quarantine Servicemen inspect arriving ships (and planes) for victims of smallpox, plague, cholera, typhus, yellow fever (the five diseases defined as "quarantinable" by international agreement). Those with other communicable diseases are passed on to local health authorities to deal with. On all ships the P.H.S. looks for evidence of rats,* which might carry plague. They check imported shaving brushes for signs of anthrax...
...long ago the P.H.S. moved in from the coast. Today, if a community has a standard milk ordinance, the standard was set by P.H.S.; all vaccines used to immunize children against such diseases as smallpox, diphtheria and whooping cough are certified by the P.H.S.; drinking water on trains, ships, planes is certified by the P.H.S.; oysters, clams and other shellfish shipped in interstate commerce must be grown in P.H.S.-certified beds...