Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...population trends, decided just how much more space each school district would need to take care of its students properly. In the town of Soquel, for instance, they found that the elementary-school population had risen more than 16% in a single year, that the school had tried to make room for 282 more pupils than it should, and that it had only half the desirable amount of playground space. In Los Altos, the Stanford group recommended a $1,185,408 building program-a recommendation complete down to the last bicycle rack and incinerator...
...Ellenton, S.C., Redbook Magazine Staffers Ike Vern and Booton Herndon were mobbed and beaten up when they attempted to photograph churchgoers leaving a Sunday-morning service. Vern and Herndon were doing a story on Ellenton's mass evacuation to make way for a hydrogen-bomb plant (TiME, Dec. 11). Explained Ellenton Police Chief John E. Steed: since being told they would have to move, "some people have been confused and hardly responsible for their actions...
...Having laid these things, as an old Nurse and Trainer, before you ... I will gladly see the young lady whenever we can make an appointment...
...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, has injected some 14 million people with the TB vaccine. Their fond hope...
...Britain, vaccination with BCG has been adopted by the Ministry of Health as an official preventive measure against TB. A major fear among many U.S. doctors, who have thus far not been able to make up their minds about it, is that universal acceptance of the vaccine might lead the public to neglect other preventive measures, most importantly the constant effort to track down the disease by widespread X-ray chest examination...