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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Advantages. Advocates of BCG argue that even a small contribution toward reducing TB is worthwhile, point out that the vaccine was shown in Britain to be 80% effective in cutting down TB among exposed adolescents, a rate comparable to that of most other vaccines now in general use. They feel that the value of the tuberculin test has been exaggerated, that X rays and sputum tests are more important and more reliable. BCG vaccine is not perfectly standardized, but the University of Illinois' Research Foundation has pioneered a freeze-drying process by which the vaccine probably can be shipped...
Early in World War II the Shah of Iran wrote to his friend Franklin Roosevelt and asked him to recommend a composer who could set Walter Camp's "Daily Dozen" physical exercises to Persian rhythms for use by the Iranian army. The U.S. State Department knew just the man: Composer Henry Cowell, then doing a stint as music editor of OWI. Cowell polished off the job in a few days, saw thousands of his records pressed and shipped off to Iran to ease the deep, daily kneebends practiced by the Shah's sturdy troops...
...wonder is that Cowell is as experimental now as he was when he was famed as a bad boy of U.S. music. "Every composition," he says, "is a fresh experiment, a mixture of the familiar and the new. I have more ideas now than I can ever use...
...rise of citizens' groups to seek industry. One of the most dramatic successes was in tiny Glenrock (pop. 1,500). With its chief industry, an outdated oil refinery employing about 60 persons, scheduled to close, Glenrock merchants set up a committee to get new industries that could use the area's big coal deposits...
...turned out the job was one of the toughest in Big Steel's history. The company had to plant huge towers at the cave and on the rim, sling light cables across the chasm by helicopter, then use them to haul across a 20-ton, 1½-in-thick main cable. In summer, 130° heat down in the canyon made tools so hot they blistered workers' hands. All food and supplies had to be flown in from Los Angeles 435 miles away; some 200 tons of equipment (compressors, hoists, welding machines) was airlifted in pieces and assembled...