Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human environment, but Dr. Spring, secretary of the House of Delegates, rejoined that "everyone should get them as extra protection... In our opinion, the more vaccination the safer you are. This does not imply that the Salk vaccine is useless, but it is not perfect and at present a booster shot should be given annually." Although the Salk-AMA exchange ended here, the issue was far from settled...
...Salk process, the viruses are heated in formalin, killing them and making them safe for injection into the human blood stream. Fourteen days after the first shot, antibodies appear in the blood, giving a slight amount of protection against all three types of polio virus. Then a booster shot is administered and seven months later another booster, both raising the antibody level. A year later a fourth injection furnishes even more protection, and some authorities urge a booster every year in order to remain safe...
...Peabodys" in Boston parking lots, added "Lick the Opposition" Popsicles for the kids. When a milliner asked her why she went around hatless, Toni hurried away and bought 15 hats-just to prove that she was an ardent supporter of Massachusetts' millinery industry. She is an unabashed Massachusetts booster. At the inaugural dinner, for example, her menu consisted entirely of Massachusetts-produced foods: baked Essex clams, Suffolk celery hearts, roast. Cape Cod duckling and cranberries, mashed Middlesex squash, Norfolk tomatoes, hearts of Boston lettuce, Parker House rolls, and Toll House cookies. "There are so many things a woman...
Another factor was that Loser Boeing could not poor-mouth very effectively. With its plum contracts involving the Minuteman missile, the Saturn booster and the modernization of older B-52s. Boeing has enough work to keep its Wichita plant going. Boeing has also developed the X20 Dyna-Soar, the first fully maneuverable spacecraft. If the Air Force wins its fight for a military role in space. Boeing's Dyna-Soar could supersede the TFX on some yonder tomorrow...
...Soviet Union, noted that even a lead pencil could be put to military use in drawing a map. When he discussed a new Soviet policy granting manufacturing licenses to foreign industry, Knox interrupted to ask facetiously for a license to make "the latest type of Soviet rocket booster." Khrushchev laughed and jokingly suggested trading design information on Soviet boosters for designs of U.S. nuclear submarines and Polaris missiles, both of which he said he admired. He added that he would not give 10 kopeks for a license covering the U.S. atomic aircraft carrier or. for that matter, any surface warship...