Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldest complaints against medical research is the uneven way the money is divided. Some diseases that kill relatively few people (e.g., polio) have been using up far more research money per case than such common ailments as heart disease and cancer...
Recently efforts have been made to even things up. Last summer General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., gave $4,000,000 for cancer research (see below), and last month the American Cancer Society allotted $500,000 to research, from this year's fundraising. Last week's news: heart disease will get $578,000 a year for six years from those practical operators, the insurance companies. This is two and a half times as much money as is now being spent on heart-disease research...
Last week the Bern radio reported rumors that Stalin had died aboard a Red warship in the Black Sea. Vienna gossips said he was a victim of illnesses ranging from blood poisoning to cancer. The French radio at Brazzaville broadcast a Soviet Embassy denial. Washington and London half-believed that something had happened to the Generalissimo. Russian troops in Germany, Austria and the Balkans were said to be restive. Many U.S. newspapers prepared obituaries...
...There are two types of miracles: "first class," involving growth of new bone tissue; "second class," such as restoration of sight or speech, healing of tuberculosis, paralysis, cancer. No miracle credited to Pierrette has been "first class...
...never been apparent why such shows as "Kiss and Tell," "Janie," and "Junior Miss" have been considered at all funny. As James Agee pointed out in a different vein, they are interesting in the same way that a slide of cancer tissue would be interesting. To all but the most hardened optimists, the uncanny accuracy of these shows would appear to signal, with the maturity of the children depicted, the final blow-up of middle-class society. But still they keep coming...