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...spills into West Germany with a coal field near Aachen, a steel business at Mannheim, an iron works at Wetzlar. The family's real rise to power began under sword-scarred Hermann Röchling, prime mover of the Saar's vast industrial buildup of the early 1900s. As a war mobilizer in the Kaiser's army in World War I, Captain Röchling ordered the scrapping of French iron and steel plants in occupied areas. Later the victorious French sentenced Hermann Röchling in absentia to ten years in prison, confiscated...
Ever since the "Xray martyrs" of the early 1900s showed that radiation could set off damage or destruction of tissues that might go on for years, medical researchers have been trying to find a way to arrest or reverse the process. To do so is particularly important in cancer patients, whose normal tissues may be damaged by X rays passing through them to reach a cancer. For many disappointing years the researchers had little luck...
...seemingly simple matter of diet that medicine has made one of its most conspicuous gains for the aged. In the early 1900s the idea got around that old people needed less protein, and they were often advised to go on a vegetarian diet. Then came low-salt diets. "Don't fall for that old vegetarian routine," warns Dr. Cowdry. "It'll kill you. And a low-salt diet is just as bad unless it's prescribed for a specific reason, such as a certain kind of heart disease." A good average diet for later life, according...
...early 1900s lung cancer was a rare disease, but equally prevalent among men and women, Dr. Wynder told a Brooklyn meeting of the American Chemical Society. By 1954 the overall lung cancer death rate had increased twenty-fold among men, only fourfold among women (21,000 and 4,000 deaths respectively). Dr. Wynder and two colleagues compared the smoking histories of women with lung cancer,(105 cases) with those of women (the same ages) without cancer. Of the cancer victims, 61% were smokers as compared with only 29% among the cancer-free. Among the former, ten times as many...
...rigors of opera do not suit Soprano Farrell's easygoing Irish temperament, or her ideas of how to live the good life. After all, her parents were the Singing O'Farrells, whose song-and-dance act played the Keith vaudeville circuit in the early 1900s...