Word: bethesda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Charles L McNary, 69-year-old minority leader, recovering nicely from an operation for a brain tumor, was set to leave the Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital this week...
...protection against flash burns, often suffered by soldiers & sailors caught by the heat waves caused by explosions, was announced this week by the Navy Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, Md. The Institute researchers tried 70 creams before they developed one that filled the bill. The new cream is grey (which helps camouflage), lasts six to eight hours, will not rub off except with soap, does not interfere with finger action, protects against a heat flash of over 1,800° F. The formula is secret...
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Dark, shy Dr. Voegtlin has headed the Institute (in Bethesda, Md.) since 1938. Since he joined the Public Health Service in 1913 he has headed research which compared the acidity and oxygen consumption of cancerous and normal cells, calculated the amount of vitamin C in tumors, discovered chemicals which produce cancer, studied the effect of radio waves on cancer...
...oldest horse race, the Town Plate. run at Newmarket since the days of Charles II. This week, at Maryland's Pimlico race track, U.S. fans for the first time will see a woman riding in a professional race. She is apple-cheeked, 29-year-old Judy Johnson, of Bethesda, Md., who has convinced the Maryland Racing Commission that she is as good a steeplechase rider as any jockey in the business...