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...white doctors (in the islands there are about 20 white doctors, 200 N.M.P.s for 1,000,000 people). But N.M.P.s' chief job is to care for their own people. Native diseases are bad: yaws (a childhood skin disease caused by a spirochete), malaria and blackwater fever, filariasis (worm infestation which frequently ends as elephantiasis). The imported diseases are often worse: diphtheria, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, leprosy, measles (which is often fatal to South Pacific natives who have not yet acquired immunity). The N.M.P.s vaccinate, fight mosquitoes, teach latrine building, operate for elephantiasis, give quinine, deliver babies. The slow increase of native...
...Nazi captain, Kurt Werner, made a quisling out of an embittered kulak (prosperous peasant) whose property had been turned into a collective farm. As his mistress, Captain Werner took another quisling, a pretty little brunette named Pussy, the wife of a Russian soldier. Then he set about trying to worm out the village's secrets-the whereabouts of the local guerrillas and hidden stores of grain, ham and honey...
...employes since 1919, has never had a work stoppage, and has never been organized by C.I.O. or A.F. of L. (its open-shop independent union: the Industrial Employes Association). And although he admitted to being a Republican, the nearest thing to an anti-New Deal statement reporters could worm out of him was that he thought the NRA had been an anti-free enterprise experiment...
...Filariasis, a worm infestation, not usually deadly, but bad for morale. Some marines in Samoa got it. In a man's blood, the filariae become very slim worms from one to two inches long, may do little harm; but if they plug lymph-gland ducts, may cause elephantiasis (huge swellings) in scrotum or legs. For some unknown reason the filariae rarely appear in the circulating blood except between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. The larvae are carried by ordinary U.S. mosquitoes. As there is no cure for the disease, the only recourse is mosquito control...
...Young Soldier is dismayed by Red-tape Worm, a bureaucrat. Red-tape Worm predicts that in the postwar world human reflexes will be deliberately conditioned soon after birth. Tiny ivory radio sets will be inserted in each skull so the authorities can learn what people think, can flash thoughts into each citizen's head. Worm also predicts that Government will provide for every possible human need...