Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homeless drunk sprawled on the sidewalk, semi-human sardines jammed into the subway; Mrs. $25,000-a-year-executive smugly viewing the man-made greenness of the Bronx River Parkway; Miss $15-a-week dictation sponge engulfing a hectic ham-on-rye; sunshine on the glories of Park Avenue; the same sunshine on the littered, crowded alloys of Mike Gold's 606 playground (the East Side); Fifth Avenue jammed with taxis, limousines and fur-clad ladies with good dogs; dismal parks replete with dejected souls, magnificent churches disgorging uplifted souls; bustling symbolic Wall Street, beggars, radicals, bankers, gangsters; longshoremen...
Early this year Dr. Brodie, who works on Dr. Park's staff, discovered that, if he mashed the spinal cords of infected monkeys with formalin, the resultant mixture would immunize other monkeys against live virus...
...make certain that the long-sought vaccine was not harmful to humans, Drs. Park, Brodie and laboratory associates vaccinated themselves. Unharmed by their experiment, they decided to make the ultimate test on children. Two dozen were vaccinated, with their parents' consent...
Last week Dr. Park announced that, as he had anticipated, the two dozen were utterly unharmed by Dr. Brodie's vaccine and, according to monkey tests, definitely immune to infantile paralysis. At once he inoculated four dozen more children. Periodically during the next year he will test the blood of all the children just to make utterly sure that the immunity continues...
Front pages loudly proclaimed that at last infantile paralysis could be prevented, perhaps some day stamped out altogether. Parents flocked to Dr. Park for vaccine, and old fears subsided in many a home. But, as usual, there was a practical hitch in last week's good news: the expense and difficulty of collecting enough vaccine to immunize the 37,000,000 U.S. children under 15. Although all kinds of monkeys may serve for the manufacture of the vaccine, the best kind is Macacus rhesus from India. To import one rhesus monkey to the U.S. costs $9. After...