Word: extracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Escape. Every year, said Dr. Christensen, about 500,000 Americans get a shot of horse-serum antitoxin. Some 25,000 get a bad reaction, and about 20 die. Tetanus experts see an escape from such dangers-at a price. Two West Coast companies, Cutter Laboratories and Hyland Laboratories, are extracting tetanus antibody from human volunteers in the form of immune globulin. But the price of one shot of human serum extract ranges from $7.50 to $11.50, whereas the horse serum costs less than $2.00. And even where price is no problem, an overriding handicap remains: human globulin is likely always...
Different Shops. One reason for despair is the cold war's "lessening of tensions," which inadvertently bolsters the hated regime of Soviet Puppet Walter Ulbricht. East German citizens oppose the U.S. wheat sale to the Russians because the West did not try to extract political concessions from the Reds in exchange. Talk in Bonn about $100 million in trade credits to the Soviet Zone inspired an avalanche of protest letters from the captive population to friends in the West. "We would starve," said one correspondent, "if we could make the government fall...
...horse meat - labeled beef goulash - and Ethiopian pork and beef. A meat company imported almost 3,000,000 lbs. of beef from South America by sending it first to Ireland and Australia, making false bills and shipping it on to Germany; the swindle was discovered when someone forgot to extract a bill of lading from a South American harbor...
...Women are meant to be childbearing, not fur-bearing"), once ticked off celebrated Vegetarian Bernard Shaw for "breaches of the vegetarian faith" because Shaw was taking liver-extract injections; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Donleavy is a serious man engaged in trying to extract real rabbits (frequently in the very act of breeding) from his trick hats. But Donleavy is also a real entertainer; unhampered by the calculations that make realistic novels merely realistic, he has shamelessly compounded a freudulent fantasy...