Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Searching for a preventive for radiation sickness, Richard R. Overman of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine announced that a drug called amino-ethylisothiuronium (AET for short), a sulfhydryl-related compound, has been 100% effective in protecting monkeys from the immediate effects of lethal radiation. AET was developed at the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Still to be determined: the drug's long-term effect on the treated monkeys and any possible application to humans. Working on another AEC project, Overman is testing the effect of bone marrow injections on radiation damage. High doses...
...best all-purpose insect repellent so far developed," in the words of the Department of Agriculture, will soon be released for commercial sale. Army volunteers found that the odorless fluid-a new diethyl toluamide compound-when rubbed on the skin offered protection against mosquitoes, chiggers, ticks, fleas, and biting flies...
...sense the Korean war was perhaps the antithesis of this spirit, inviting compound failure: before Korea the U.S. vacillated in its Asian policies, and the peace was lost; the U.S. then took the correct step of intervention and subsequently proved unwilling to carry out its will by full force. But after Eisenhower made his decision to end the Korean stalemate, he followed through with a second decision that put the U.S. back onto a logical policy footing. "This was the first time' in the history of our nation," says Radford, "that we didn't break up our military...
...rest of the picture is a fairly candid camera record of how Schweitzer today, half a century after he made the central decision of his life, is still paying humanity's claim. His hospital at Lambaréné, two days up the Ogowe River, is a rough compound of iron-roofed wooden shacks in a jungle clearing. Schweitzer and his small staff-three doctors, nine nurses -work with comparatively crude instruments (complicated medical gadgets invariably break down in the jungle climate). They have modern drugs, but they do not despise the native alexins. Says Schweitzer: "I have...
...noninterference in Saudi Arabia's domestic policies. The royalties Aramco pays provide 90% of the government's revenues. Without Aramco, Saudi Arabia would revert to a black-tent kingdom of camels, date palms and holy places. But no U.S. adviser has his office in the palace compound (as the British ambassador did in Jordan), no company agent issues authoritative suggestions to Saud's government officials (as Anglo-Iranian did in Iran). The result has been that nowhere else in the world, where such a single foreign interest so dominates a nation's economy, is there less...