Word: cough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urban Negroes. Suddenly, sales began to fall off. International investigators discovered that United was hiring Negro rumormongers, who were going into beer halls and factories and spreading the word that Maxes were made by an apartheid (i.e., Jim Crow) company. What was more, said the paid detractors, Maxes caused coughing and tuberculosis. In May 1953, International sent its lawyers to court seeking $8,400,000 damages. In his decision last week, Judge Clayden found all United's propaganda false. International is not an apartheid company, and as for Maxes, there was not a cough in a carload...
Cora Louise Sutherland had always been a thin, wiry type, but in 1951 she developed a hacking cough and lost weight steadily. Each day she taught shorthand to three classes totaling more than 70 pupils at Los Angeles' Van Nuys High School. Students and fellow teachers whispered, but nobody knew what ailed her. For Cora Sutherland was a Christian Scientist. Instead of submitting a chest X ray every three years (as do all but about 100 of LosAngeles' 13,000 teachers), she turned in an affidavit declaring herself free of communicable disease...
...best time to vaccinate youngsters against smallpox, diphtheria and whooping cough is in the first few hours of life, Country Doctor Herbert D. Chamberlain told general practitioners. Among 741 babies so treated in Ohio's Vinton County, he reported no bad reactions, and so far full protection against the diseases...
...devices and lament the disappearance of the chalk-line test. At a recent civic meeting, a New Orleans official gave a demonstration in the hope of inspiring interest and confidence in the Drunk-O-Meter, a type that measures the alcoholic content of the breath. Placing some 70 proof cough syrup at a handy distance, he prepared to give a before-and-after exhibition. Unfortunately, either he or the machine was smashed and the meeting ended in a general state of disorder...
...Jorgensen is completely recovered from his cold and cough, he may show well in the 220. Ohio State's Ford Konno will win that event and the 440 since he happens to hold the intercollegiate records in both (2:04.7 and 4:29.4), but at least this will keep Yale's Marty Smith out of the high-point bracket...