Word: canceler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazilian Dr. Lauro Sollero studies how one billionth of a gram of serotonin (a powerful, blood pressure-raising chemical isolated by Page and colleagues) makes a strip of rat uterus contract, and the ways in which serotonin and other body chemicals cancel each other's effects. Dr. James McCubbin is probing breakdowns in nerve impulses that throw blood-pressure control out of kilter. Famed Internist Willem Kolff, who invented the artificial kidney when his native Netherlands was under Nazi occupation, has developed a $14 model in a gallon can. Dr. Page himself spends two or three days a week...
...once the freshman and varsity sailors found themselves with too much water and were forced to cancel the hoptagonal meet at New London as well as the New England preliminaries...
Dirksen's assistant in charge of his appointments, Harold Rainville, declared in Chicago that the Illinois Senator would have to cancel at least seven speeches to testify. "He's been so busy the Federal Marshal hasn't caught up with him to serve the subpoena yet," Rainville added...
...industry expansion. ODM has ended 19 categories of fast write-offs (asbestos, lead, tungsten, etc.) as no longer essential, indefinitely suspended 38 others (commercial aircraft, iron ore, etc.) leaving only 20 (copper, aluminum, atomic energy, etc.) of the original 225 expansion goals still in effect. New cutbacks will either cancel or postpone some 900 applications from U.S. business for $9.3 billion worth of fast write-offs...
Unequal Equality. Finance Minister Ichimada has decided to cancel the favorable tax deal given foreigners since 1951, make everyone pay the same stiff tax as Japanese. While that sounds fair, U.S. businessmen in Japan complain bitterly that the treatment they get is far from equal. Though many Japanese businessmen make big salaries, ride around in Cadillacs and spend freely, only a handful (400 in 1954) declare salaries as high as $15,000 a year. An executive in a big firm may declare a weekly salary of $100-and pay taxes on it. But his salary is only the beginning...