Word: cm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last January the Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif, made a routine shipment to their warehouse in Jacksonville, Fla. of 391 cases of 5% glucose in normal salt solution. All 2,346 bottles bore the laboratory code number CM-8164. Three months later a worried doctor in Hazard, Ky. telegraphed the American Medical Association headquarters in Chicago ; he had noticed alarming reactions in two patients who had been given injections from bottles labeled CM...
...CM-8164 cause the deaths? No one could say for sure; the three patients who died after injections were very ill anyway. The FDA analyzed some of the bottles, found they contained a pyrogenic (fever-causing) substance. When laboratory rabbits were injected with the solution, half died, half got sick...
...bargain. A problem any time, the traffic hazard has probably increased with the added dangers of treacherous ice. Concentration on maintaining an upright position precludes watching for cars. But this seasonal distraction in no way absolves the student from blame for his part in the daily dodge 'cm game. Cheerfully assuming that safety grows with numbers rather than with discretion, the Yard-bound crowds forget about cars in the hope that cars will forget about them. Taking the cue from any leader who happens along, they lower their heads, and plow blindly ahead, looking up only when their soles scrape...
...radio relay system connecting New York and Boston was demonstrated last week by Bell Telephone Laboratories. The cableless cable uses microwaves about 7½ cm. long, which are not affected by weather, static or most kinds of man-made interference. The waves move in straight lines and refuse to curve with the earth, so they cannot make Boston in one jump. The telephone people skip them from hilltop to hilltop...
Something was obviously wrong with the machine. New York's anti-Communist Liberal Party, veterans' groups, old-line, anti-Tammany Democrats, and independent voters began to harass Marc and talk up a new deal for East H:1 cm. To help them along, Candidate Bryan invaded the grimiest corners of Marcantonio's dead end with an oldfashioned, no-quarter campaign. Patronage or no patronage, Marcantonio would have to hustle...