Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blend three dashes Benedictine, three dashes grenadine, one-third orange juice, two-thirds dry gin. Stir well in ice, strain, serve in tin cup and stay away from organ-grinders...
Weakening Strain. This sort of thing apparently had not happened in Dr. Salk's own labs. But if it could happen anywhere, it raised a fundamental question: should any strain of virus that is likely to cause paralysis be used in the vaccine? Dr. Salk had long contended that the Mahoney strain which he picked to represent all the Type I strains, was safe because it was killed; critics had damned it in the live state as the most virulent form known, and the likeliest to cause paralysis. Now, Dr. Salk wavered: Mahoney was a good strain because...
...P.H.S.'s top men were not entirely satisfied with formaldehyde as the killing agent: ironically, it may actually favor the clumping of virus particles that makes a vaccine unsafe. And they had little patience with the Mahoney strain (which has caused most of the polio in the Cutter-vaccinated cases).* Denmark, they noted, has inoculated its 400,000 schoolchildren with a Salk-type vaccine, but with the Brunhilde strain substituted for Mahoney, and with no mishap. And since the U.S. authorities were not satisfied with present testing methods, it was clear that major changes in the Salk vaccine were...
...Before single-strain vaccines (representing each of the three main types of polio virus) are mixed to form the triple-threat end product, there must be more tests, using much larger volumes of material. Formerly, one-tenth of 1% of each strain was taken for testing; now, a minimum of 500 cc. must be used-a tenfold increase for a firm making vaccine in lots of 150,000 cc., and probably some increase for all manufacturers...
...through a period of despondency. Editors just don't seem to appreciate your genius. When that happens, I just see my analyst and go back to free-lancing again." But their biggest problem is still security. Many a free-lancer gives up because he cannot stand the strain of worrying over where his next check is coming from...