Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modern industry, relatively unknown in this part of prewar China, has been successfully introduced under government leadership and encouragement. State ownership and operation of the heavy industries, private capitalism with government regulation for the light industries, and cooperation for small-scale, decentralized, handicraft industries, and agriculture-all of which develop rapidly in the course of war-promise to give now forms of economic organization that may be further developed in a post-war China...
...fashioned plaster cast, leave the cast undisturbed for many weeks until the wound has healed. This closed plaster method prevents many an amputation, reduces infection to a minimum, allows soldiers to be moved with no ill effects. Only drawback: after a week or so the wounds develop a foul stench. Last week Dr. Allan Dinsmore Wallis and Researcher Margaret J. Dilworth of Philadelphia told how they prevented the smell by simply placing lactose (milk sugar) solution on wounds before enclosing them in plaster. Apparently, said the scientists, the lactose provides food for harmless bacteria in the wounds, prevents them from...
...toughest problem he had: to make a practical filter for a Diesel generator that so far had rendered useless the radio that had to go in the same car. In two months, Tobe's engineers had the thing licked, and before long they had gone on to develop a new filter for Army cars that cut the old cost from $80 to $15, cut the space it took up by 50 times, saved time, metal, labor...
...packs the punch of a Peabody or a Pflstor, and the sheer power of a Miller or a Gardiner is sadly missing. Jack Fisher, the Freshman captain of a year ago, has the inside track on the conter fight, but hero again a wide-open battle royal should develop in September...
Occupational Cancers, which are caused by external environmental agents such as X rays, radium rays, ultraviolet rays, certain complex tar and benzine compounds, hundreds of other carcinogenic (cancer-causing) chemicals. Farmers and sailors may develop skin cancer through long exposure to the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. Cotton spinners in Britain, who are constantly exposed to the carcinogenic mineral oil used in lubricating the spindles, may develop "mule spinners' cancer" of the scrotum. Obviously, said Dr. Cramer, occupational cancer is a "preventable disease." Social Cancers, an expression coined by Dr. Cramer, which include cancers of the esophagus, stomach, upper digestive...