Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the U.S. most of the time, typhoid is a "dead" disease. Nobody is in much danger of catching it, and doctors rarely look for it. But occasionally the typhoid bacillus (Salmonella typhosa), as if to keep its charter in the society of menaces, strikes back. This year a baffling outbreak has spread across three Midwestern states. It hit Minnesota most severely in January, Iowa in April. Wisconsin has had a gradual dose of it since the first of the year. To date there have been 121 cases (one death, in Iowa). The victims were from both urban...
...July 2) will go to Isbrandtsen Line, which will get 15 mothballed Liberty ships from reserve fleet, use them to carry coal to Western European markets, where demand far outstrips supply. Lease arrangement is for 15% of ships' sale price, or $1,225,000 for total one-year charter...
...SHIPPING BOOM is steaming along so briskly that lines do not have enough vessels to handle all new business. Maritime Board has requests from 15 companies to release total of 81 ships from Government-owned reserve fleet for emergency charter service...
...Supreme Court ordered Brooklyn College to reinstate Professor Harry Slochower, who had been a prickly, evasive, smart-aleck witness as he pleaded the Fifth Amendment before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. The court ruling invalidated a New York City charter requirement for automatic dismissal of any city employee taking the Fifth. Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissenting, wrote that the court majority had "unduly circumscribed the power of the state to insure the qualifications of its teachers...
...development planning. In 1949 the government of Colombia asked the bank for a team of experts to help work out a countrywide development program. A dozen specialists spent the better part of a year studying Colombia's basic problems, turned in a volume that became Colombia's charter for development, advising on how to attract foreign capital, how to encourage investment by Colombia's own citizens. The government followed it so carefully that Colombia now has ten World Bank loans totaling $94 million and is rapidly expanding...