Word: affected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing. He was willing to take the chance of hurting book sales by advance publication in LIFE, so that more people could read the story. Wrote Novelist Hemingway to Daniel Longwell, LIFE Editorial Board Chairman: "Don't you think it is a strange damn story that it should affect all of us (me especially) the way it does? . . . I'm very excited about the book and that it is coming out in LIFE so that many people will read it who could not afford to buy it . . . It was wonderful luck Leland read it and showed...
Other companies did, and got into penicillin faster. But Merck got a head start with the next antibiotic, streptomycin. When Rutgers' Dr. Selman Waksman found that his beloved soil bacteria had made something that killed many germs which penicillin did not affect, he took the culture to Rahway. Though half a dozen companies are making streptomycin today, the best guess is that Merck microbes, in their own temple of vats at Elkton, Va., make 40% of the U.S. output...
...soon as the SEC heard about the suit, it hastily withdrew approval of the stock registration until it could see how the suit would affect McCarthy's new company. Texas brokers, who have followed McCarthy's career with great interest, guessed that the stock issue might be delayed for weeks or killed entirely...
Flying Poison. But one implication of the test explosions is no secret. Atomic bombs set to explode underground are expected to play a big part in future warfare. Air bursts, as used over Japan, affect only the surface of the ground. As both sides burrow deeper, placing their vital installations deep in soil or rock, the atom bombs will go after them, sending rock waves to wreck them as no air waves...
Washington's Governor Langlie proposed that any delegations whose seating had been challenged by at least one-third of the national committee should be barred from voting on the credentials of any other delegation. This rule would affect 68 pro-Taft delegates from Georgia, Texas and Louisiana. Ohio's Clarence Brown moved that the Langlie resolution should be amended to except the seven Louisiana delegates...