Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asking for blood to be shipped to England. Profiting by the experience gained in nine Manhattan hospitals, 13 other cities (Philadelphia, Baltimore, Buffalo, Rochester, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, St. Louis, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Boston) are now blood-collection centers for the U.S. armed forces. Two other cities-Cincinnati and Chicago-were getting collection centers ready last week, organizing doctors, volunteer workers...
...only will the powdermakers get alcohol, but they will get it fast. Early last month four freight cars bulging with corn rolled up to National Distillers' big Carthage distillery in Cincinnati. Less than 96 hours later this corn was alcohol gurgling into a waiting railroad tank car; 48 hours later the alcohol was being piped into an Indiana powder plant...
...means by which infantile paralysis is spread far & wide has been discovered. The common house fly, according to topflight Poliomyelitis Researcher Albert Bruce Sabin and Robert Ward of the University of Cincinnati, is a carrier of the disease...
...Winston Churchill's oratory before Congress were heard not only in the U.S. over the national networks but in many distant places of the earth. To Europe the speech was broadcast "live" by NBC and CBS short-wave transmitters near New York; by WLWO, the Crosley station near Cincinnati; by WBOS, the Westinghouse station near Boston; by WGEO, General Electric station in Schenectady. The British Broadcasting Corporation picked it up and rebroadcast it by short wave to all the outposts of the Empire. In Singapore it was rebroadcast on long wave to the fighting zone of the Far East...
Nonetheless, University of Cincinnati's President Raymond Walters, semiofficial U.S. campus nose-counter, reported last fortnight that the draft and defense jobs had cut enrollment in 669 leading colleges an average of 9.16% this fall. Stirred by this statistic and the U.S. entry into the war, many colleges last week announced plans for speeding up a college education without watering its quality: > Yale, Harvard and Princeton jointly launched a scheme to cut their course from four to less than three years by staying in session all year round. All three will let freshmen start next June instead...