Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belt extending almost around the world (from East Pacific islands to southeast Asia, equatorial Africa, northeast coast of South America, and up to the Caribbean islands), 189,000,000 people have filariasis, which causes swelling in the lymphoid tissues. About 20,000,000 people have oncocerciasis, which causes blindness when the worms get into the eyes. A new antimony compound called Neostibosan has proved effective against filariasis, and another new drug, hetrazan, against oncocerciasis...
...hundred scientists of a dozen nations seized on May's incandescent hunch. In 1884 a German, Paul Nipkow, invented a whirling metal disc, which eventually picked up vague picture outlines and was the basis for mechanical television. Italy's Marconi, with his wireless, and America's Edison, with his motion picture, added ears and movement to the dim silhouettes that were forming...
Died. James Edward West, 71, longtime Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (1911-43); of an intestinal disease; in New Rochelle, N.Y. An orphan lamed by tuberculosis, he was a veteran in social work and child-welfare reform when he took over the Scouts. Its membership was then 61,495 ; he helped build it to some...
Colt's Jolt. In Hartford last week, Colt's Manufacturing Co., one of the biggest U.S. small-arms manufacturers, drew a bead on C.I.O.'s United Electrical, Radio & Machinery Workers of America. Colt charged that the union's record "of obstructing national policies" might endanger the company's fulfillment of armament orders, and refused to renew its contract. Under the Taft-Hartley law, the union could not bring charges of unfair labor practices before the National Labor Relations Board; its officers had refused to swear they were not Communists...
...Cryptogamic. College presidents were not amused when Veblen described them (in The Higher Learning in America) as "Captains of Erudition" whose function was to accustom the sons of rough "Captains of Industry" to "genteel solemnities" and urbane forms of "dissipation." Earnest economists who had written cumbersome tomes of unintelligible prose positively hated Veblen when he leaned forward, assumed a poker face and gravely asked them: "If we are getting restless under the taxonomy of a monocotyledonous wage doctrine and a cryptogamic theory of interest, with involute, loculicidal, tomentous and moniliform variants, what is the cytoplasm, centrosome, or karyokinetic process...