Word: germanizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...epidemic of rubella, or German measles, was a national disaster. Rubella virus is as deadly as thalidomide for the unborn, and the epidemic left an estimated 30,000 babies marred for life by cataracts, deafness, heart malformations or mental retardation. Ever since, virologists have been racing against time, trying to perfect and test an effective rubella vaccine that can be marketed soon enough to avert the next predictable epidemic, expected in early 1970. Last week it appeared certain that the U.S. would have at least three different vaccines in time...
Although the purpose of vaccination against German, or "three-day," measles is to protect pregnant women for the sake of the unborn, the plan is not to vaccinate women.* Instead, public health officials hope to stamp out rubella by vaccinating children; thus, as they put it, "drying up the reservoir" of susceptible subjects who spread the infection. Some time in their lives, most adults have had a touch of rubella with no ill effects, and are now immune...
...Washington but broke tradition by holding a press conference, with tour of his six top officers, to explain why the company had raised its '69 prices. This month he departed from tradition again by announcing plans for a small G.M. car (a foot longer than the West German Volkswagen) two years before it will be introduced. When G.M. opened its new 50-story Manhattan headquarters, Roche quipped that he had learned with "great relief" that the tower was only the twelfth tallest in town...
...Louisiana Purchase ($11 million), and European financiers were principal backers of the railroads and the steel, petroleum, mining, cotton and Southwestern cattle industries. The European stake in the U.S. peaked at $7 billion in 1914, but it took two world wars to all but wipe it out. German plants in the U.S. were confiscated in both world wars. Other Europeans sold off their U.S. holdings to raise cash for their war efforts...
...small ($247 million) U.S. stake reflects a caution resulting from wartime confiscations, may become the biggest investor within the next decade. Hoechst, Bayer and BASF are leading a current surge of interest in manufacturing on American soil the chemical products that they now export to the U.S. The West German government, uneasy about its big trade surplus (TIME, Oct. 25), is strongly urging others to build abroad...