Word: credited
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Divided Credit. In Denmark, where BCG has been widely used, the tuberculosis death rate has been reduced over the last two decades from 71 to 19 per 100,000 inhabitants. But socially conscious Denmark has gone further than most nations in eliminating the factors that encourage tuberculosis. In lands where all else is hopeless, BCG has been given a fairer chance to make a statistical case for itself. Throughout the crowded, war-torn areas of Europe and the East, where general health conditions are at their worst, the International Tuberculosis Campaign, jointly sponsored by several U.N. and Red Cross organizations...
Matter of Ideals. Lucien, like most young wrigglers, quickly learns to navigate the muck. With great credit to his reputation, he manages to hush a scandal that might have brought the cabinet down. Soon after, he is in the thick of a provincial election, passing out bribes as easily as breathing. In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption...
Surely the editors of the CRIMSON must realize that their selection of advertising will reflect in some degree upon their journalistic integrity. The publication of an advertisement of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society hardly does credit to the semi-official "voice" of Harvard University...
What was needed, said McCabe, was not a lessening of credit controls but a tightening. FRB was already considering a clampdown on charge accounts, bank loans and other inflationary influences...
Holler & Spurt. There was plenty of evidence last week that such a tightening could not come too soon. Despite FRB's credit pinching, bank loans kept right on rising to new alltime highs. And even though builders had hollered at Regulation X (TIME, Oct. 23), housing starts in 1951 might well be higher than FRB intended. Furthermore, the auto dealers were using old figures when they talked of slumping sales. With a threatened cut in auto output, car sales have recently spurted upward again. Nevertheless, FRB thought that tougher credit controls might check inflation-if given a chance...