Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the present spot-checking procedure is inadequate cannot be fully substantiated until after the pending congressional investigation. Nonetheless, even the half-heartedness of the response to this week's embargo--many states and cities ignored it--shows the insufficiency of federal control over manufacture alone. Conflicting rumors, semi-panic, and misinformation which have prevailed, make centralized Federal jurisdiction mandatory during the emergency...
Meanwhile, what of non-Cutter vaccine? In California, which seemed worried to the point of panic, many doctors insisted that it would take years to prove the Salk vaccine's safety, and said they would not give it to their own children. The California State Board of Public Health and a 17-man advisory committee of medical experts decreed that no Salk vaccine of any kind should be used for at least a week. That, they hoped, would give time enough to find out whether non-Cutter vaccine, at least, was safe. By week's end, only three...
...refugees all have stories to tell. There is a serious farm crisis in East Germany. Meat, wheat, sugar and edible oils are now critically short, and in some localities there has been panic buying on the "free markets" (where prices are about six times the ration price). Some East Germans fear that the "pocketbook blockade" of West Berlin (TIME, April 11) is only the prelude to "some new deviltry." The East German government announced that it had arrested 521 U.S., British and West German "spies...
Several Adams House residents were rushing yesterday to the Hygiene Building in a minor panic asking for gamma globulin inoculations, it was learned last night. The sudden rush for the wonder drug is due to mild contraction of hepatitis by an Adams House senior...
...panic, although mainly confined to Adams House, has spread to some of the other Houses...