Word: chartes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Dr. Burrill Crohn, of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, listed its symptoms and put a name to it: regional ileitis. Usually it is limited to the last couple of loops in the small intestine before the junction with the ascending colon, part of the large intestine (see chart). Europeans often call it Crohn's disease...
...notably by the big investment trusts whose purchases had pushed the blue chips so high. But Wall Streeters guessed that the 10% drop in prices, which had put the market in the same position where it had found strong support in the last two big corrections (see chart), had made some of the blue chips inviting again. Investors who had shifted out of blue chips as their rise narrowed the gap between the yield on the stocks v. the yield on bonds, now had good reason to go back into them again...
...this year. The top-heavy inventories of window units that plagued the industry for the past two years have been cleared out, and manufacturers expect retail sales of all types to be $3.2 billion in 1956, up a cool 10% from last year's record $2.9 billion (see chart...
This new instrument will aid immensely in the development of the young science of radio astronomy. It will receive invisible waves from outer space, enabling astronomers to chart the fine structure of our galaxy and analyze its invisible components such as radio stars and gas stars...
...food.' " Currently, researchers must apply one chemical compound after another to each of a dozen types of animal tumors. Once a drug seems effective, it is put through an exhaustive series of tests, so far has always proved to be of limited effectiveness. Needed first is a chart of cancer cell behavior to eliminate the present trial-and-error approach. "I see more optimism that this can be achieved," said Dr. Cameron. "Pure scientists are getting excited about human cancer. There is no question of an ultimate solution to the problem of abnormal [cancerous] growth...