Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor respiratory; i means that it was the first cold virus they isolated, suggests that there are others still unknown...
Human beings will still be used as guinea pigs. They will be needed for experiments, for many questions are still unanswered. Is there any drug that will do any good for a cold? Can a vaccine be developed for MRi? Just how long is a cold "catching?" What effect do low temperatures and wet weather have? The new test does not mean that a cure has been found for the common cold. But the search has been speeded...
...fortnight for Dr. Atlas, who is 27 and now head of the war on colds at Bethesda. The week before the MRi announcement, he married blonde Bacteriologist Maxine McCall, who worked with him in the experiments. Dr. Atlas, who used to catch a cold every two weeks until he started wearing a special face mask while making tests, headed south with his bride for what he hoped would be a cold-free honeymoon...
Many an auto buyer, cold-shouldered by dealers in May when a "new used" Chevrolet sedan went for $2,260 ($984 above the list price), found that he was loved in December. Lincolns, Kaisers, Frazers and Hudsons could be bought right off dealers' floors. So could trucks and farm equipment, once as short as Chevvies. After a long climb, employment and production in some industries were both dropping "unseasonally" at year's end. Though employment, at 60.1 million, was almost one million above the end of 1947, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' cost-of-living index, which...
...Done. As 1948 began, oil was so short that oilmen worried about a .return to rationing (during one cold spell, New York City had to beg oil from the Navy to keep its hospitals and schools warm). To stave off rationing, oilmen earmarked $5 billion for expansion in 1948-49 and worked as never before. Wildcatters roamed the U.S. far & wide, looking for oil in the most unlikely places...