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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until it has been officially denied." Over the past months, the speculators went right on bidding up the price of gold stocks. Last week, President Truman pricked the speculators' golden bubble. As long as he was President, he said, the price of gold would not be raised. Next day, speculators unloaded 13,900 shares of Homestake Mining, which dropped 3½ points...
When Pratt Segmiller isn't running a filling station in Marysvale (pop. 600), Utah, he hunts rocks. One day, while prospecting around the sage and cedar-covered mountains northeast of Marysvale, he found some strange yellow-colored rocks strewn over a surface of about 60 acres. Segmiller thought they might be valuable, so he staked a claim and called the Vanadium Corp. of America. When it inspected the claim; it got pretty excited and leased the land from Segmiller. The yellow rocks were autunite, a uranium-bearing ore, and the strike looked like the most promising yet made...
...streptomycin or P.A.S., but most patients suffer only loss of appetite, malaise, and skin eruptions which look like measles. These side effects soon pass, and Tibione (unlike streptomycin) can be given to a patient for months or even years. It is taken in tablet form, usually four times a day. Because the drug was developed during the war, the German patents are no good and any U.S. manufacturer can make it. A few patients in U.S. hospitals have been dosed with Tibione; it will soon be tried on thousands...
...should know anything about the common cold, that man is Dr. Christopher Howard Andrewes. For the-past three years, 1,500 volunteers, furnished with free board, lodging and viruses, have spent ten-day periods under his observation at Harvard Hospital on England's Salisbury Plain. Last week, Cold Expert Andrewes told a large audience at Harvard Medical School (which helped finance its English namesake) just how little he has learned...
...Other Man. In Manhattan, Motorist Paul Moore admitted in court that in 20 years of driving he had never had a license, but that he "did have an attack of conscience the other day and applied...