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...nobody died of the plague, so it was pronounced gone for good. California breathed a sigh of relief and tried to forget the plague. But after the earthquake of 1906, plague again haunted the ruined city: 160 known cases appeared in 1907 (others are believed to have been concealed or wrongly diagnosed). This time the infection was attacked in earnest. But it was too late-plague had spread from city, rats to wild rodents of the hinterlands. A campaign against ground squirrels was begun, but it dwindled and collapsed about 1920. Again California tried to forget the plague...
...When I was in New York there was a big crowd one day in Times Square. They were being told to buy war bonds. Who was the master of ceremonies? Jimmy Walker. I can remember twelve years ago when the whole nation breathed a sigh of relief when the then Governor Roosevelt of New York State had the courage to put on the pressure and oust Walker as mayor. And now Walker is telling me and several thousand others to buy war bonds. Out of 7,000,000 people they have to pick...
Upperclassmen who sigh for the helping hand and friendly advice of the CRIMSON Confidential Guide will find solace by dropping in at the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street and picking up a copy at $.25 apiece...
Upperclassmen who sigh for the helping hand and friendly advice of the CRIMSON Confidential Guide will find solace by dropping in at the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street and picking up a copy at $.25 apiece...
Thoughtful businessmen breathed a profound sigh of relief. Industrial mobilization took the first real step away from Washington, rather than toward it, since World War II began. WPB began to decentralize itself. This blessed portent was part of WPB's shift in emphasis from expansion-for-later to production-with-what-we-have-now. The present U.S. war plant is already devouring raw materials faster than they can be mined. Therefore, Washington's No. 1 job is no longer production, or conversion, or contract-letting, but raw-materials flow. So WPB began to strip itself down to that...