Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herald Rea Cox, 34, U.S. Public Health Service bacteriologist stationed at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Mont. He found a new and safer method of making typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever vaccines-cultivating them inside half-incubated eggs. The typhus vaccine is being used by the U.S., Britain and Canada to immunize their armed forces...
...that all U.S. shipbuilding methods are brought up to date in speed and efficiency. Mr. Gibbs likes nothing better than speed and efficiency. His radical, straight-from-the-lip methods lie behind the technological revolution which made four-day Liberty Ships possible (TIME, Sept. 28); his firm of Gibbs & Cox is responsible for 70% of all Liberty Ships abuilding, turns out 26 acres of blueprints a month, buys $1,000,000 worth of materials a day. As an administrator, he fears no man. Said Gibbs last week: "I'll be one of the most hated men around here...
Elections to the Business School Council have placed Charles Whalen in general charge of social activities at the School for the coming year, it was announced yesterday. Assisting him when he takes over his presidential duties in February will be Edwin Cox, elected vice-president, and Vinson H. Beckman, chosen to be secretary...
...Iran last May to become medical adviser to the Government, swarms of Polish refugees from Russia were pouring into the country-unwashed, lousy, probably infected with typhus. Iranians feared an epidemic. At Teheran's Pasteur Institute, Dr. Neuwirth taught Iranian technicians to manufacture typhus vaccine by the new Cox egg-culture method.* Dr. Neuwirth vaccinated thousands of Iranians where typhus threatened, induced the Government to order compulsory vaccination of the whole army-some 200,000 soldiers. (No vaccine against typhus gives sure-fire protection, but vaccination helps...
...Herald R. Cox of the U.S. Public Health Service cultivates vaccines inside half-incubated eggs rather than in living animals...