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Temperatures are up, bets are down, tongues are wagging, dispositions are sagging--yes--the fever is rampant...
Just a few months back (along with some 75,000 like him) the new civil servant had landed in the Capital, his fever patriotically high, his eyes star-spangled, his shoes freshly whitened. He had pitched in to help win the war. Things looked different now. Now he cursed his Congressman, his tortured sinus, his lumpy boardinghouse bed, the humid streets, the dismal food, the bus service. Mostly, this week, he brooded about his tardy paycheck...
...civilians were at no less a fever pitch than U.S. soldiers. Coal Strikes I & II had already cost the country ten million tons of coal production; they had meant the loss of 16,000 tons of pig iron and 20,000 tons of steel IL the western Pennsylvania steel district alone. That iron, thought the citizens, would have killed a lot of Japs and Germans...
...Spencer, his successor, is as modest as he is short. But his work in proving the tick transmission of deadly Rocky Mountain spotted fever (in some places it kills nine out of ten) and developing a protective vaccine has brought him a public reputation. He was idealized as the hero of Lloyd Douglas' novel. Green Light-moviegoers know him as the man (Errol Flynn) who went into the Rockies after ticks. Since 1938, as assistant director of the Cancer Institute, he has done much spadework on what heat, radium and cancer-causing substances do to animals...
Before leaving on Government service overseas in Africa, the thought occurred to me that, with considerable airplane travel necessary, an accident or other causes, such as black-water fever and malaria which break down the blood, might require a blood transfusion in places where laboratory facilities or other modern means were lacking. I therefore had my blood typed by the local hospital and carried the data in my passport. . . . My doctor's letter read...