Word: pitman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Middlesex-born Vicar Strong first took up his double life during World War II, when he served a village near Dover as vicar and simultaneously worked as a coalfield pitman. Hampered by unenthusiastic superiors and sheer exhaustion. Strong had to quit for a while, but in 1955 he took a job as an oil-meter checker in a factory, was appointed curate in Harlington, and won the backing of his bishop...
Indianapolis' Pitman-Moore Co., not yet ready with any vaccine, promised to send 500,000 shots, free, to doctors for themselves and their nurses or assistants - enough to take care of all the 180,000 U.S. physicians in private practice and their staffs. Though Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of PHS was convinced that the mutant Asian strain of type A virus had by now been "seeded" in every state of the union (20,000 to 25,000 cases have so far been reported in the U.S.), there was no way of predicting when or where the expected epidemic...
...Lilly & Co. and Pitman-Moore Co. of Indianapolis; Lederle Laboratories of Pearl River, N.Y.; National Drug Co. and Merck Sharp & Dohme, Inc. of Philadelphia; Parke, Davis & Co. of Detroit...
...JACK PITMAN Chicago...
...third dose." The representatives also decided that the supply of Salk vaccine is sufficient to make the three-dose scheme practical in 1956. ¶ "The manufacture of [Salk polio] vaccine is the greatest problem the biological industry was ever faced with," said Kenneth F. Valentine, president of Pitman-Moore Co., Indianapolis vaccine manufacturer. "We never had a tougher product to make . . . The line between making a vaccine that is effective and making one that is unsafe is very thin." ¶ Patients who appear to be fully anesthetized may still be "capable of feeling, hearing and remembering things that happen...