Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coal shortage, caused chiefly by obsolete equipment and miners' war weariness, was nearing the danger point. Approaching winter brought fear to Government officials and industrialists alike: last week, industrial stocks took a sharp plunge on the London Exchange. Minister of Fuel and Power Emanuel Shinwell had denounced widespread rumors of impending power rationing as "malicious propaganda." But he himself had to admit last week that, unless coal production increased rapidly, there was grave danger of a breakdown in Britain's hard-struggling industry this winter...
...patient is not drunk. These are symptoms of a mysterious, widespread disease known as multiple sclerosis, a disorder of the nervous system. Doctors have recognized it for nearly 100 years (the German poet Heinrich Heine is believed to have died of it), but they have never discovered its cause or cure...
There had never been such a widespread meat famine before. Last week TIME'S correspondents in 139 cities - the centers of every area in the U.S. - reported on it. In all the U.S. there were only half a dozen cities in which the shortage was not acute. The lucky six: Boise, Idaho; Tallahassee, Fla. ; Douglas, Ariz.; Austin, Corpus Christi and Laredo, Texas...
...atomic bomb. The atomic bomb is still only in the hands of a state and nation which we know will never use it except in the cause of right and freedom. But it may very well be that in a few years this awful agency of destruction will be widespread and the catastrophe following from its use by several warring nations will not only bring to an end all that we call civilization but may possibly disintegrate the globe itself...
Epidemiological Bloodhounds. Most promising of the venereal fighters' new lines of attack is a patient, widespread attempt to trace each infection to its source. The agents: nurses, social workers and doctors, who are known as "epidemiological investigators" or "contact tracers." They have found that more than half of the patients who turn up for venereal treatment can be persuaded, with tactful handling, to name their contacts. The investigators can sometimes trace the spirochetes back through a complex transmission line (see cut). More effective than the shotgun technique of mass blood tests, contact tracing has helped venereal fighters to identify...