Word: extracts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when his swollen larynx closed. In Vancouver, B.C., 17-month-old Mark Bennett, who had toddled into a wasp nest, been stung 477 times, went home from the hospital completely recovered after 20 days of treatment (with penicillin, ACTH and antihistamines). ¶ Four Brooklyn doctors have found that an extract from the liver of pregnant cows gives prompt relief to most of their cases of osteoarthritis (by far the commonest form of arthritis, for which ACTH and cortisone are useless). ¶ After an executive's son fell into a poison ivy patch, researchers of the National Lead Co. went...
...Would Be at a Loss." Hours were wasted by the committee in cross-examination trying to extract information. Wigglesworth quoted "a typical exchange." He had asked one bureau chief (Rear Admiral Malcolm Schoeffel, of Ordnance) to imagine that he and Wigglesworth had changed places. On the basis of facts submitted by the admiral, could the admiral, if he were a Congressman, make up his mind whether the bureau needed $1,300,000, or $500,000, or $5,000,000? Said the admiral: "Sir, I would be at a loss...
...cubic mile of sea water there is about $93 million worth of gold, but no one has yet figured out how to extract it profitably...
Decadent Peoples? The trip began dramatically at the yawning, man-made canyons of the Mesabi iron-ore range, where miners were washing down bedrock with hoses to extract the shrinking deposits of ore. The Congressmen heard estimates that the Mesabi's reserves would last as little as five years longer. They found Mesabi mining men unanimously convinced that the seaway is necessary to bring Labrador ore to U.S. steel mills. Said Major General Lewis Pick, U.S. Army chief of engineers,* who accompanied the Congressmen: "Any man who opposes this undertaking should prepare to make peace with his Maker...
...British and Russian troops occupied Iran. Mossadeq's alien-baiting became more popular than ever. In 1944 he put through a bill forbidding the government to grant an oil concession to anyone without legislative permission. Since this was aimed at the Russians, who were trying to extract an oil concession in northern Iran, the Iranian Communists called Mossadeq a British agent. He never got over the insult...