Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial would not be adequate, refused to discuss with the President his complaints against his co-directors, insisted on taking them to Congress (TIME, March 21). When the President dismissed him as TVA's chairman, Arthur Morgan went right on using the title and, at his home in Yellow Springs, Ohio, bided his time...
...Yellow Jack (Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce, Charles Coburn, Lewis Stone; TIME...
...originally cost from $3,400 to $4,800 and when Mr. Mitchell could not sell them at that price, he had hung on to them. Parker Morelli, promptly putting all 14 on sale, by last week had sold the lot-at prices ranging from $15 to $25. One 1905 yellow roadster (see cut) had two upholstered "mother-in-law" seats behind the driver. It goes 35 (with some difficulty), is not bad on hills...
...Yellow Jack was being released last week, the Satevepost published a searching review of the yellow-fever problem entitled Yellow Jack Breaks Jail, by Physician Victor G. Heiser. Its discouraging findings were that the enigma of yellow fever has not yet, after all, been completely solved. Theory has been that the Aedes mosquito was the only carrier, and that the virus required a human host. But exhaustive research has since proved that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is not the only carrier, and that men are not the only hosts to the yellow fever virus; that it can be harbored...
What gave Dr. Heiser's article a further ominous ring was the expressed theory that the wide extension of airplane travel could bring about a renewed spread of yellow fever. His suggestions for prevention of a new epidemic: 1) consultation with health authorities in the construction of transport airplanes, to eliminate possible hiding places for the carrier or its larvae, and 2) utilization by airplane passengers of inoculation facilities...