Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polio vaccination program took a body blow last spring when the disease developed in children injected with vaccine from the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley. Calif. (TIME, May 9, et seq.). Doctors suspected that some of the vaccine must have contained live virus. Last week, after four months of investigation, the U.S. Public Health Service found fault with the Cutter vaccine and its own inadequate safety tests, since drastically revised. The PHS report...
...estimated 401,000 children received shots of Cutter vaccine in the fortnight before it was recalled. Polio struck 79 of the vaccinated children and 90 others who came into contact with them...
...Cases from eleven of the 17 Cutter lots "were not higher than could be expected," but the other six lots resulted in an abnormally high number (at least 103 cases...
...Cutter public-relations men prepared a statement hailing the report as a complete vindication. "A weight is off my shoulders," Dr. Cutter told a friend. "I'm going home and work with my camellias.'' But U.S. Surgeon General Leonard Scheele said: "[The report] was not favorable or unfavorable ... It says there was some virus in some Cutter vaccine." Asked if PHS found Cutter production or testing was "sloppy," Scheele replied: "No evidence was found to indicate anything done by Cutter to short cut or be sloppy deliberately...
JOHN ("HONEST JOHN") KELLY. While the Tweed Ring was crumbling, John Kelly, onetime soapstone cutter grown to influence in Tammany, wisely absented himself from the scene; he went off to inspect the Holy Land. Upon the Ring's breakup, Kelly hastened back to the U.S. with four oil paintings, including The Return of the Prodigal Son, which he presented to St. Patrick's Cathedral. He took over as Boss of Tammany, ruled for 14 years with relative rectitude, and died of a broken heart after his political enemy, Grover Cleveland, became President...