Word: safer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Allstate President Calvin Fentress Jr., "If we are honestly interested in making our streets and highways safer, then we must see to it that more and better driver-training programs are installed in our secondary schools . . . There is only one man who sets automobile insurance rates-the man behind the wheel...
...make electric-shock treatment quicker and safer, the University of Texas' Dr. Neville Murray recommended giving the patients succinylcholine (instead of curare) to relax their muscles, and no barbiturates. The whole job can be done in 80 seconds, he reported; patients need little restraint (one attendant is ample) and do not hurt themselves. Most can soon walk back to their rooms...
...vaccine (TIME, Feb. 9) which, it is hoped, can defeat polio. Key points in his review: ¶The virus can be readily cultivated in tissues from monkeys' kidneys. This process gives a higher yield than using monkey testicles (on which earlier experiments were made) and is safer than using brain tissues. ¶After the virus has been killed with formaldehyde, it can still stimulate the human defensive system to manufacture antibodies which give protection against infection by all three types of polio virus. ¶Given in water, the vaccine produced indifferent results in human subjects, but when prepared...
...health," but refused to comment on Stalin's death in a silence more eloquent than even his oratory. Other Britons felt the need to sum up. "A great man but not a good man," said Labor's-Herbert Morrison. "The world is a healthier but not a safer place," said London's Economist...
...neared completion, American Airlines announced that it would move from Dallas' Love Field to Fort Worth's splendid terminal. Other airlines debated whether to follow suit. Though there was no real reason why Dallas air passengers could not use the new, safer Fort Worth facilities, few permitted themselves even a second of such treasonable thought. Dallas, its citizenry decided, must have a big airport too. The solution seemed simple: all they had to do was rip down houses in which hundreds of families live at present, subject other residential areas to the constant snarling of aircraft, and spend...