Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...searching reexamination. Columbia University's Dr. H. McLeod Riggins declares that the U.S. has failed to put into full use "a scientifically proved vaccine" against TB because of "a false sense of security." Reason: the dramatic drop (of 76%) in the TB death rate since "wonder drugs" were found to treat the disease after...
When I failed to see full coverage of the Levittown, Pa. riot, I began to wonder why. If this incident had happened in Montgomery, Ala., wouldn't you have carried...
...Government's most costly and coddled cold-war babies was its crash program to mass-produce titanium, the "wonder metal'' that is lighter than steel and tougher than aluminum. To get the metal for supersonic planes, the U.S. gave out some $215 million in federal loans, stockpile-buying contracts and research grants that helped boost production of titanium sponge from 75 tons in 1950 to 14,000 tons last year. More than 90% of the 1957 output was bought by the Government. But last week the Government and producers alike were willing to concede that titanium...
...Defense Department and aircraft manufacturers doggedly kept solving these problems, figuring that tomorrow's planes and missiles would bring forth a huge demand for the wonder metal...
...surprise. Few had ever heard of Yuri, and he had not even made the Soviet Olympic squad. When Russia's Olympian Igor Kashkarov (who cleared only 6 ft. 10½ in. to finish third at Melbourne) claimed a jump of 7 ft. ¼ in., western trackmen began to wonder what was going on. The seven-foot barrier, which had once tripped everyone but California's Charley Dumas, seemed suddenly to have shrunk...