Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors have long wanted a worldwide treaty guaranteeing freedom of the press, and they thought the United Nations was the means to get it. They began to suspect, in a string of preliminary conferences, that they were wrong. Last month they got proof when the U.N. turned the treaty-drafting job over to a committee* loaded with nations which cared more about restricting the press than freeing...
Scientists have known for over 50 years that the great, round pit near Canyon Diablo, Ariz, is a meteorite crater. In Scientific Monthly, Dr. H. H. Nininger offers proof that it was made not by one but by two great meteorites hitting close together...
...Davis, in its publicity release, tells how the new drug was used on 23 ulcer patients who had not responded to conventional treatment. Twenty-two of them were wholly free of ulcer craters in three to six weeks. The 23rd responded too, but relapsed after discontinuing the pills. The proof is still thin, even for a newcomer drug. Kutrol will not win lasting pharmaceutical stardom until it has scored many more hits in the stomachs of ulcermen...
Researchers cannot yet say for certain how polio spreads. The virus has been found in sewage and on flies, but there is no proof that human beings pick it up directly from either. The virus has been found in healthy people, showing that man can sometimes carry it without harm. A recent survey indicated that 80% of the adult population is partially immune. Vaccination has been tried successfully on animals. Tests on mice have shown that immunization can sometimes pass from mother to child. No vaccine has been found, however, that is safe enough to try on humans...
...medicine called Hadacol (TIME, June 19). A spectacular, three-dimensional display in New York's Grand Central Station and sensational advertising gimmicks in other big cities proclaim the "merits" of the mixture, which consists of B vitamins, honey, iron, phosphorous and calcium, all shaken up in a 24-proof cocktail of ethyl alcohol.* Last November, LeBlanc began urging the nation's doctors to help him sell more Hadacol. "Dear Doctor," ran a learned-sounding circular letter from the makers of Hadacol, "In order that you may give consideration to Hadacol for its therapeutic effect . . . we suggest that...