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Despite Nazi boasts of a better Germany, the health-standards of the country have been disastrously lowered, an item which may prove to be of great importance in the event of a long war. The rate of occurrence of diphtheria, scarlet fever, and infantile paralysis have more than tripled since 1933, Miss Mann pointed out; this constitutes a grave menace to the German war economy...
...transport moved into position on Rio de Janeiro's Santos Dumont airfield one day last week, began loading up for its regular Sāo Paulo run. Up the steps walked the passengers: Cuban Minister to Brazil Alfonso Hernández Catá, Rockefeller Foundation's yellow-fever researcher Dr. Evandro Chagas, Norwegian Consul Alexander Stabell Grieg, Sebastiāo Leme Salles, nephew of Rio's Cardinal Archbishop, eleven lesser wigs. Heading into the wind, the VASP airliner roared across the field, lifted easily into a climbing turn...
...Cover) Since World War II began 14 months ago the Balkan Peninsula has run a temperature. Periodic scares have sent it to fever pitch, then dropped it as, one way or another, neighboring powers got their way without bloodshed. Rumania is partitioned and overrun by the German Army. Bulgaria takes orders from the Axis. Even Yugoslavia, which has a relatively large, well-trained Army, has taken the path of appeasement. This week war came at last to the Balkans, to the weakest country, but to the one country determined enough to stand up to Axis threats - to Greece...
...foie gras, grand pianos, gold watches, diamond rings, French lingerie for rubber kings' naked native wives, French mistresses to replace them. Manaus went cultural, built a $5,000,000 opera house, closed it again when half the first opera company promptly died of yellow fever. There were also malaria, hookworm, poisonous insects, a Turkish-bath-like heat that overnight dissolved salt, gunpowder. But there was wealth, the apparently inexhaustible wealth of the "black gold...
Died. Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Cavalcade, 9. Kentucky Derby winner and leading three-year-old in 1934; of "shipping fever" (equine influenza), contracted while traveling from Virginia to Kentucky for the breeding season; at Lexington...