Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canadian youngsters had been inoculated without a single proved case of polio resulting from the vaccine. The greatest and most significant technical difference between U.S. and Canadian methods was that all vaccinations in Canada had been given by subcutaneous (under the skin) injection. This greatly lessened the likelihood that paralytic polio would be provoked by jaBbing a needle into muscle and nerves...
...demand for a shorter work week-44 hours as opposed to what they call the 56-70 hours now demanded of them. As the week drew on, the strikers immobilized the biggest prize of all, the Queen Mary. Fuming with indignation because the shipowners had pooh-poohed the likelihood of a strike until they were comfortably settled in their cabins, hundreds of the Mary's passengers, many of them U.S. tourists, were bundled off the ship and deposited back in London, to stand holding wilted flowers and half-empty champagne bottles in Waterloo Station. "I'm going...
...Heavy smoking alone, or in combination with heavy drinking, greatly increases the likelihood of cancer of the larynx...
...likelihood goes up with the amount smoked: if a light smoker (up to 15 cigarettes daily) has X chance of larynx cancer, a 16-to-34 man has almost double that chance and an over-35-a-day smoker nearly four times that chance. Noninhaling cigar and pipe smokers run about the same risk as 16-to-34 cigarette men (higher, relatively, than their risk of lung cancer...
...that U.S. airlines have decided to hold off on jet transports, probably until 1960. It will take at least five, possibly seven, years for them to amortize their costly new fleets of piston-engined craft, some of which will not even be delivered until 1957. Furthermore, there is little likelihood that a U.S. jet transport will be on the market for some time to come. In Washington last week, Air Force Assistant Secretary Roger Lewis told Boeing Airplane Co., which had hoped to turn out a commercial version of its giant KC-135 jet tanker by 1958, that...