Word: journals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crash program to nip a developing polio epidemic, a U.S. Public Health Service team recommends quick inoculation of the unvaccinated with a whopping shot of Salk vaccine-10 cc., or ten times the dose now given in each of three injections. In the New England Journal of Medicine they report no ill effects from such doses in volunteers, and much quicker development of immunity...
PORTLAND OREGON JOURNAL : As a citizen of Oregon, we are ashamed of Senator Morse's role in the whole affair...
...have tried everything from diversification (the Charlotte Observer turned a tidy profit last year by leasing its truck fleet) to dieting (the Los Angeles Times has shrunk 5 in. in width, estimates that each ½-in. trim saves $500,000 a year in paper costs). Last year the Milwaukee Journal, minding its pennies, canceled its annual employees' picnic (savings: $12,000), rerouted its newsprint cars (savings: $1,500), and with other items amounting to as little as $250 a year managed to save an overall...
Smaller Slice. Successive waves of subscription and advertising increases have not only failed to meet skyrocketing costs, but in some cases have pushed advertisers and readers both into rebellion. New York City's three afternoon papers-World-Telegram and Sun, Post and Journal-American-have yet to recover the circulation they lost two years ago by raising the copy price from 5? to a dime. The Chicago Tribune now offers bargain advertising "zone rates" to hold fringe accounts, such as the corner grocer, who neither wants nor will pay for a citywide broadside. In Pasco, Wash., Sears, Roebuck began...
Apart from its mission of feeding facts to farmers, the Journal is a tireless, effective crusader on issues great and small. In 1953, within six months after the magazine had demanded, "Let's Make 'Em Cook Raw Garbage" (to kill the vesicular exanthema virus that can infect hogs), 28 states enacted appropriate laws. Currently, Editor Streeter is busily engaged in a crusade in which the stakes are no less than the future of the American farmer, afflicted as he is by a self-defeating Government program that this fiscal year is costing the U.S. taxpayer a scandalous...