Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cancer has been increasing since the War at so devastating a rate that now 100,000 persons die of it annually in the U. S. Yet it is to some extent preventable...
Last week the American Society for the Control of Cancer (370 Seventh Ave., New York City; Dr. Howard C. Taylor, president; Dr. George A. Soper, managing director) girded itself for renewed educational propaganda. Last year it spent about $60,000 on its work. A fortnight ago John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave it $135,000. But it needs $1,000,000 as an endowment fund. This it will...
...world fight against cancer persists. Last week...
Research. John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week gave $125,000 unconditionally toward the $1,000,000 endowment fund of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. Also he gave $10,000 to help defray expenses of U. S. and European cancer specialists at a cancer congress next September at Lake Mohonk...
...Like a cancer which, in its last stages, seems actually to thrive upon the knife, violations of the Volstead act may almost be said to have thrived...