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- ↑ "NEW DRUG BEING FLOWN FROM U.S. TO TREAT SISTER KENNY". Queensland Times . No. 20, 561. 28 November 1952. p. 1 (Daily). Retrieved 5 July 2017– via National Library of Australia.
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