Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his anti-syphilis campaign in this state of successful momentum Surgeon General Parran turned to Cancer. Before Congress were bills for a Federal institute to concentrate on this second most common cause" of death in the nation (TIME, July 5), Dr. Parran went up the Hill...
...discoveries about the hardening of arteries; Rudolph John Anderson, biochemist; Dr. Ross Granville Harrison, biologist who began the artificial cultivation of living tissues, for which the Rockefeller Institute's Alexis Carrel is more famed; Rockefeller Institute's Francis Peyton Rous. whose discovery of a type of cancer (Rous's sarcoma) which can be transplanted from one chicken to another gave students of cancer a powerful new instrument of research...
...Childs donation to Yale, whose disbursement these scientists will manage, was $10,000,000, precisely the amount which the world's No. 1 cancer authority, Manhattan's Dr. James Ewing, says is necessary to establish an effective cancer study institute...
...decade Dr. Ewing has declared that with six $10,000,000 institutes, scientists could soon control cancer. Nearest approach to that, before last week's gift, was $2,000,000 which Steelmaker William Henry Donner of Philadelphia, transient father-in-law of Elliott Roosevelt, gave for an International Cancer Research Foundation (TIME, June 20, 1932). Before that the biggest cancer war chest was the $1,400,000 of the George Crocker Institute for Cancer Research, which Dr. Francis Carter Wood manages at Columbia University...
...institution, Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, had only $1,000,000. Last spring John D. Rockefeller Jr. increased that with land and $3,000,000 for a new building close to Cornell Medical School, where Dr. Ewing & staff teach, and close to the Rockefeller Institute and its cancer investigators, notably Drs. Peyton Rous and James Bumgardner Murphy...