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First came Q fever (so called because it was identified in Queensland, Australia, in 1935), a distant and comparatively harmless relative of typhus. Its victims, usually stockyard or dairy workers, develop flu-like symptoms. By week's end 116 cases had been reported...
...experimenters "set out to discover which diseases, spread by air, are most easily contracted and most fatal. Tularemia (rabbit fever) won on both counts. Runners-up: melioidosis, a glanders-like Oriental disease; glanders...
...gasoline. In the air it could get more gasoline from a tanker and fly toward Dakar, where another tanker would give it enough fuel to fly on to Natal. The airline could collect 18 extra fares and scrap its expensive Dakar base (passengers would be spared the yellow-fever shots required for a stop at Dakar...
...answers of students and local gentry alike seemed to fever any move squeezing local gentry alike seemed to favor any more squelching Communism. "We usually come to the Square when connecting a poll on world affairs," they sated "but when we want the latest on Mayer Curley it's generally the Scollay square version, or down forwards Haymarket...
...Eccles: "Production is the ultimate solution for inflation." But with the U.S. already riding a full employment economy, that could only mean the harder work and longer hours Eccles suggested. The U.S. was still feeling only a little sick; it was not yet feeling bad enough to work the fever...