Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impresarios established their first office in a bathroom. A friend had agreed to let them use his tony Manhattan address provided that they kept out of the way, so they installed the phone in a spare bath. In this austere retreat the opera company took shape. Backers were found, some of whom were in the Social Register, and most of them owned awnings. The company's first production was Monteverdi's 300-year-old Coronation of Poppea, performed in a Fifth Avenue drawing room for an audience...
...million have had two, and 11 million have had one; 9 million remain unvaccinated. Among the 42 million in the 20 to 40 age group, 28 million remain unvaccinated, but distributors and druggists now have 23 million shots in stock. Said HEW Secretary Marion B. Folsom: "If people will use the vaccine available, it is possible to give paralytic polio a knockout blow within the next year. It will be a tragedy if, simply because of public apathy, vaccine which might prevent paralysis or even death lies on the shelf unused...
...competitions (TIME, Aug. 2 9) 1955). Last week Publisher Petersen sat down with his editors to plan an even more ambitious safety project. In the belief that highway deaths could be significantly reduced by a unified, nationwide research organization concentrating exclusively on traffic safety.* Petersen, beginning in January, will use all his magazines to campaign for creation of a new federal department with the task of coordinating traffic-safety research and education throughout the nation...
Counterattack. The truckers themselves were not immune to back-alley tactics. Judge Clary noted that their public relations firm. Manhattan's Allied Public Relations Associates. Inc.. "attempted in a limited degree to use the Byoir technique of phony organizations to attack the railroads." But he added that "wiser heads" in the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association called a halt to the program...
...coming of the turbojet will multiply the problems of airports that are crowded, inconvenient and sometimes dangerous even for today's DC-75. The jets will weigh 300,000 Ibs. fully loaded, v. 150,000 Ibs. for the largest piston-engine airliner now in use, making most present runways too short for safety, and the hot breath of jet-engine exhausts will melt many runway and taxi-strip surfaces. Moreover, since six jetliners arriving close together will disembark as many passengers as an ocean liner, the passenger, baggage and ticketing jams of today will pale beside tomorrow...