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Consider the following quote from the November 1951 issue of the magazine Factory Management and Maintenance: “A disease second only to the bubonic plague in its effects. At least that’s the feeling of those who have to get production out, when the ‘[BLANK] [BLANK]’ comes along. The shop may be half empty, but every absentee was sick.” What common, two-word term, that now describes an entirely different event, is being explained?

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