Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after successive stings, to the point of a severe, body-wide allergic reaction or even death. Every summer such severe sting reactions are a major problem to doctors; treatment consists in giving antihistamines and adrenalin or a hormone of the cortisone family. But researchers are busy on ways to prevent such cases by helping sensitized victims regain the normal degree of immunity...
...influential clerical weekly Palestra del Clero pointed out that the original decree provided a loophole for just such discretionary application. The Pope spoke of those who became Communists scienter and libere-with full knowledge and full freedom of choice. "These two adverbs, if fully understood." said Palestra, "prevent any excessive rigor in the application of what the decree lays down ... It is evidently up to the cleric in each individual case to distinguish between true willful Communists and those who are victims of illusion, hence of ignorance; between those who have freely chosen to belong to the Communist Party...
...combat one of the worst U.S. outbreaks of anthrax in a quarter-century, Oklahoma threw National Guard roadblocks around Craig and Ottawa counties to prevent shipments of livestock, began vaccination of more than 60,000 cattle. Veterinarians working 16-hour days each vaccinated 788 to 1,000 animals a day. At least 200 cattle were dead of the disease; so far, no cases have spread to humans...
SKYWAY TRAFFIC JAM will be eased under new CAB plan to prevent armed forces from declaring vast areas of sky off-limits to any but military flights, thus crowding commercial planes into narrower lanes and causing costly flight delays. Board figures alloting more space for commercial flights will also create wider, safer buffer space between military and civilian areas...
HOWARD HUGHES is also target of trustbusters. Justice Department charged that his Hughes Tool Co. divided world markets to prevent import into U.S. of German-made oil and gas well-drilling equipment that would compete with him. Suit says that since 1950 Hughes has illegally pooled patents and consulted on prices with West Germany's Alfred Wirth...