Word: april
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months the presses of Manhattan's fallen Star (nee PM) had gathered dust. For four weeks, pudgy Theodore Olin Thackrey, ousted by his estranged wife Dolly from the New York Post Home News (TIME, April 18), had been an editor without a mouthpiece. Last week a way was found to employ both editor and presses. With money furnished by a generous backer, Ted Thackrey bought the Star's equipment, prepared to launch a new 10? morning tabloid in New York City next week. Its name: the Compass...
...Selman A. Waksman, 60, discoverer of streptomycin and neomycin (TIME, April 4), has dreamed for years of better facilities for hunting new antibiotics and for teaching others to join in the search. Last week streptomycin and the generosity of Scientist Waksman brought the dream near reality. Rutgers University announced that Dr. Waksman had turned over his patent rights to the Rutgers Research and Endowment Foundation...
...blood test for cancer announced last month by Dr. Charles B. Huggins (TIME, April 25) indicates possibility of cancer somewhere in the body, does not point to the site...
...Chairman Nourse dozing a bit himself? Most Government economists and almost all businessmen had been banking on a strong spring upturn to check the recession. So far, no sizable upturn had come. Instead, production in April (as measured by the Federal Reserve index based on the 1935-39 average) had tumbled another 5 points to 179. The index stood a full 16 points below last November's postwar peak of 195. This was the sharpest five-month drop since the 1945 reconversion shakeout after...
...Squeeze. Industrial employment was also still falling. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that non-farm employment dropped 225,000 in April, though farm jobs rose by 427,000. But even that was less (by about 275,000) than had been expected. Overall U.S. employment of 57,819,000 was under last year's 58,333,000 at this time...