Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, Dr. Kevorkian was a government agricultural advisor to Ecuador, where he was in charge of experimental stations developing rubber, cinchona, insecticidal plants and fibrous growths. From 1943 to 1946, he served as director in Nicaragua of the co-operative agriculture experiment station involving the U. S. State Department. He also served with the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations in Washington...
He sold out his Tokyo mother-of-pearl business, moved to oyster-packed Ago Bay to experiment. In four years he had his first but imperfect pearl. In 19 years he had so perfected his process that few amateurs could distinguish cultured pearls from natural ones.
All experiments will be performed on rabbits. Reason: present object of experiments is not to cure but to cause cancer and hundreds of rabbits can share the C14 required to experiment on a single human being.
Like other chains, ABC has been hit recently by contract cancellations (TIME, May 27). But Ed Noble thinks the "hysteria" is now over. Of his Noble experiment in radio he quipped: "I've had the damndest lot of headaches, and damndest lot of fun, I've ever had...
¶ A camphor-phenol treatment for athlete's foot, which led many Digest readers to experiment with corrosive self-medication. Result: ulcerated feet.