Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earlier this week, Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service, threw a scare into students planning to go to graduate school in the near future. He said, in effect, that there would be more emphasis on drafting men as soon as they finished college...
...most public-school superintendents and other taxpayers well know, many school boards are composed of public-spirited, well-intentioned citizens who don't know the first thing about overseeing a school system. Such boards often meet in secret and in ignorance, raise hob with sound budgets, scare off competent instructors, fiddle while schoolhouses crumble and educators burn. Many a board keeps no minutes of what good or ill it does...
...blood donations on an all-out, wartime scale, beginning at once, so that gamma globulin (TIME, Nov. 3) can be processed in readiness for next year's polio epidemics. The goal: 5,000,000 pints ¶Doctors of the Food & Drug Administration, spurred by last summer's scare about Chloromycetin, checked 539 cases of blood disorders, such as aplastic anemia, which might have been caused by drugs. In. 55, they found, Chloromycetin was used alone, and in 143 with other drugs, but in 341 cases other drugs or no drugs had been used. Their conclusion: doctors should watch...
...that grabbed power. Egged on by the tin firms, the junta risked the collapse of Bolivia's tottering economy to wage a war of bluff with Stuart Symington, then head of RFC, trying to force him to buy Bolivia's tin for the U.S. near the Korea-scare price of $1.90 a Ib. Soon food ran short in Bolivian cities. Paz's nationalists shouted: "Bread for the People!" and raised him to power in a bloody revolt last April...
...problem is to export more beef to pay for essential imports without making the beef-loving voters at home too unhappy. In the drive to bring down meat consumption, Health Minister Carrillo is trying to scare his countrymen into becoming vegetarians. At a busy corner in downtown Buenos Aires, he has put up a "Health Cooking" stand featuring free, meatless recipes, and a huge blackboard warning of disorders, from gallstones to high blood pressure, which he insists are caused by excessive meat-eating...