Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thames quayside to discriminating London vintners. "A good wine," sad Bertrand, "should have personal attention. It is a patron's duty." As spring's tender new shoots peeped from the wintry canes of his vines, Bertrand's plans were made. His own 47-foot cutter Lord Jim hung impatiently at her mooring on the Gironde. Her lockers were tenderly stowed with the finest output of the local vineyards-mellow...
Last week, just 14 days after weighing anchor in the Gironde River, the crew of the cutter Lord Jim brought their craft up the Thames. All was well at last, with only one minor drawback-of all the bottles carefully laid away in Lord Jim's lockers, only ten still contained wine. "Ah, well," mused Guitarist de Castelbajac, as his captain faced London's vintners with somewhat empty hands, "some wine, it just does not travel...
...Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories had been expected to supply one-sixth of the total, were out of the running and would stay out as long as their vaccine remained under suspicion...
Nobody yet knew how much danger there might be. Of five manufacturers that have shipped vaccine, two (Parke, Davis & Co. and Pitman-Moore) had spotless records: no reported cases of polio after use of their vaccine. But the U.S. (mostly western) total of such cases reached 78: after Cutter vaccine, 59 (five fatal); after Eli Lilly & Co.'s, 14; and after Wyeth's, five...
Getting Under the Skin? More startling and possibly just as significant, though no epidemiologist wanted to commit himself, was the fact that 23 cases had developed in the families of children who had come down with polio after getting Cutter vaccine. Eleven were adults, and one had died. This was a notably higher rate for family contact cases than would be expected, or than had been seen in last year's trials...