1 World Without End If a killing type of virus strain should suddenly arise by mutation ... it could, because of the rapid transportation in which we indulge nowadays, be carried to the far corners of the earth and cause the deaths of millions of people. - W. M. Stanley, in Chemical and Engineering News, Dec. 22, 1947. Chapter 1 ... and the government of the United States of America is herewith suspended, except in the District of Columbia, as of the emergency. Federal officers, including those of the Armed Forces, will put themselves under the orders of the governors of the various states or of any other functioning local authority. By order of the Acting President. God save the people of the United States.... Here is an announcement which has just e in from the Bay Area Emergency Council. The West Oakland Hospitalization Center has been abandoned. Its functions, including bu
