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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brother William (later Viscount Camrose), came out of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, at the turn of the century, launched Advertising World in 1901, began building a chain that eventually reached a maximum circulation of 24 million (1947). Once called "the greatest debenture salesman in British journalism," Kemsley nevertheless paid close attention to editorial matters, followed a Victorian creed: "I have no intention of competing for circulation by appealing to the appetites of certain sections of the public...
...experts are in close agreement on what cancer is. First, it is not one disease any more than "infection" is. Cancers ravage the entire plant and animal kingdoms. In man there are 200 to 300 kinds, though 90% of human cancers belong to 30 common types. So "cancer" is a collective term...
More ingenious than simply poisoning the cancer cell was the idea that it might be fooled into accepting, instead of a normal food substance (metabolite), an analogue (close chemical kin) to fill the metabolite's place but yield no nourishment. First to use antimetabolites this way was Dr. Sidney Farber of Boston Children's Hospital and the Children's Cancer Research Foundation. Knowing that leukemic cells are avid for the vitamin folic acid, he began in 1947 to treat child victims of acute leukemia with analogues of folic acid. Lederle Laboratories sent Dr. Farber two, aminopterin...
...prolonged strike could throw millions out of work and close down more industries. That would clearly be a national emergency, and reason for President Eisenhower to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, seek a strike injunction that would bring the workers back to the plants for 80 days. Said Chairman Paul Carnahan of Great Lakes Steel Corp.: "I doubt that a settlement, when it comes, will originate with either management or the union. We will have to wait until an air of crisis begins to develop nationally...
...Close behind in the gumshoe race runs the auto industry. Said the report: "There are probably more than 10,000 people who know what is going to happen to forward model cars. The opportunities to pick up valuable trade secrets are enormous." The Dearborn (Mich.) Inn has received an unusually large amount of income for its top-floor rooms; the inn just happens to overlook the Ford test track in Dearborn. One automan, who confessed to the Harvard men that he had gone "too far," telephoned the top office of a competitor, got information on a new model by realistically...