Word: vac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prison of Vac near Budapest, prisoners formed a remarkable literary cooperative. For writing paper, they stole toilet paper. They fashioned pens out of metal fragments and mixed blood and coffee grounds for ink. By pooling their memories, they produced portions of Ovid, Catullus, Vergil, Shakespeare and Whitman in the original Latin and English, then translated them into Hungarian. In the end, the Vac prisoners produced a handwritten, hand-bound, four-volume anthology of prose and verse...
When the Salk vaccine proved successful in 1955. six drug firms were licensed to produce the vaccine. Exhorted by the U.S. Public Health Service to produce as fast as they could, the companies turned out more than 205 million doses of vac cine through 1957. sold 103.5 million doses to the Government for distribution to an eager public. Last week five of the companies -Eli Lilly & Co.. Allied Laboratories Inc.. American Home Products Corp.. Merck & Co.. Inc. and Parke. Davis & Co. -were indicted in a Trenton (N.J.) federal court on antitrust charges that they had criminally...
...Russians in ruthless array. Out went Nagy, in came thin-lipped Quisling Janos Kadar. The Russian tanks and infantry were now too much for the street fighters. This is where the Hungarian revolution might have ended but for factory workers like Lazlo Szabo, foreman of a textile mill at Vac, near Budapest...
...first outbreak in Budapest, back on Oct. 23, had created great excitement in Vac. Lazlo hurried home from the factory. "A big argument started right away," he recalls. "I said a great change is coming and that we must do something about it. My father-in-law disagreed. He said everyone should lie low, or the AVH would get us. One of my wife's brothers-in-law said, 'It is madness to turn against Russian power. It will crush you.' Then my wife, who is better educated than the rest of us, said: 'Well, I am sure that...
Next day Lazlo Szabo joined demonstrations which tore down the Soviet monuments, cut the Red stars out of the flags, and freed political prisoners in the Vac prison...