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...outbreak of violence which Jews and British feared came with a rush. There were explosions and gun fights in Haifa, Natanya and at five Army camps; two British officers and a Jewish civilian were killed. (In London a bomb was found in the Colonial Office; its crude timing device failed to explode it.) Irgun announced that it would take ten British lives for each of its "soldiers" hanged. Palestine was taut. The Army's showdown with the terror gangs seemed to be at hand...
...born shortly before the outbreak of World War I in Frankfurt am Main. The place was accidental. My father was an opera singer and happened to have a contract with the Frankfurt Opera at the time. He was Hungarian; my mother was Viennese. My father died by accident four weeks before I was born. My mother lived henceforth with her two sisters, who were actresses and very beautiful...
...Most recent previous U.S. outbreak: in Seattle a year ago (68 cases, 20 deaths...
What had caused the belated outbreak? U.S. Public Health Service epidemiologists refused even to guess. About flu epidemics they know only one thing: they are always unpredictable...
...Bock declared that cases in this vicinity have been few and mild, but he advised early action to prevent an outbreak of the kind that is currently taking place in the Middle West...