Word: batch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Public Health Service made a hurried check. All reported cases of polio among vaccinated children were youngsters who had received vaccine made by the Cutter Laboratories. This raised the agonizing possibility that a batch of vaccine had gone through with some live virus in it. Like all vaccines, the Salk preparation contains germs of the disease that it is meant to fight. In the Salk process, these virus particles are killed, with formaldehyde, so that they cannot keep the power to infect (but retain the power to help the system build antibodies). Although this apparently did not happen...
...Good Are the Tests? Every batch of vaccine is, of course, tested for defects.* Last year each batch was subject to three rigorous tests: by the manufacturer, by the Salk laboratory, and by the National Institutes of Health's Biologies Control Laboratory. This year the full testing is being done only by the manufacturers, while the federal lab merely makes spot checks...
...vaccine last year but on a less effective, condensed schedule (they will get one shot as a booster). These groups will get their shots from volunteer doctors and nurses at inoculation centers now being set up across the nation in schools and other public buildings. As soon as each batch of vaccine is checked by federal health authorities, it is being shipped to the centers-first to Southern states, where the polio season starts earliest. In many states the vaccinations began this week. Parents' permission is needed for all shots. Who Can Buy It? The surplus turned back...
...famed performers identified. The records are dubbings from Victor's pre-LP catalogue, with their dark-hued old sounds partly hi-fizzed through electronic tinkering. The first series contains all of Tchaikovsky's six Symphonies performed by such fictitiously named orchestras as "Centennial," "Warwick," "Cromwell."* The second batch, called The Heart of the Opera, contains excerpts from eleven popular operas (Carmen, Faust, Figaro, Traviata, etc.), some of them excellently sung by voices that are familiar music-room words.† The sound is poor to moderately good, but the price ($1.98 per LP) is just fine. Furthermore, the disks...
...former colleagues became suspicious. One day last fall, armed with a telescope, police in an apartment across the street watched two known female addicts drop in on Louis and pick up a large package. They followed the women back to their apartment and caught them busily boiling down a batch of opium. There was still no direct proof that Métra had provided the opium, but the police kept watching and waiting. The watching was doubly difficult since Métra knew all the cop tricks, and it would not do to trail him in the familiar black Citroen...