Word: cc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Come? The doctors went to work meanwhile to figure out what was the matter with the vaccine. So far they have little to report. The vaccine, provided by the Rockefeller Foundation since 1936, consists of yellow-fever virus rendered harmless in the laboratory. The ½cc ampules must be kept in frozen storage, must not rise above 37° F. before use. There are three possible causes for the trouble: 1) the Army slipped up on vaccine handling; 2) the toned-down virus sometimes made people sick; 3) this particular batch had been contaminated by another germ...
...Harvard consists of Physics A, which combines C with the first half of Math A. Thus instead of three alternate methods for beginning physics, the student can now choose from only two, B plus D or just A, and thus save a full year of study. Concentrated Physics CC, giving C in half a year, is a new course with 43 students meeting five days a week at Radcliffe because of the shortage of Harvard facilities. Fifteen additional applicants were refused admission to this new course...
...last year to civilian defense and other Governmental agencies in preparing this country for the dilemma which now confronts us that the large numbers of healthy young men in our universities are a legitimate pool from which blood may be obtained. Blood will only be drawn in 500 cc., i.e. 1 pint, lots from individuals who are healthy and in whom such a withdrawal would leave-no deleterious effects. It is required that mature minors (that is individuals under 21) bring with them the written consent of their parents of guardians...
...Employment Bureau then go on a list at. Massachusetts General Hospital. They move around in a sort of blood-cycle, going to the bottom each time they give blood, and moving up a name each time somebody else docs. They get $25 for each transfusion, generally losing about 500 cc at a time. "Some of the most delicate-looking boys go over to the hospital and it doesn't bother them a bit," says white-haired, little Miss Baldwin. Sometimes if a vein is a trifle stubborn the doctors have to "fuss around a bit more," but generally...
...Boston Transcript, on November 23, announced further developments in this plan: "Plans for an entirely new type of government work-service camp, differing substantially from the CC program, were disclosed hero today . . . . The project has been approved by a committee of the National Defense Council . . . it appears reasonably certain that the camp will have the official backing of the government." The chairman of the sponsoring group answered in a reassuring manner a query concerning those who plan to work at the camp: "...It would be better to have them all in one camp where the community can keep...