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Word: factor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three years of painstaking experiments to remove the fatal factor from the vaccine, PHS's Dr. J. Frederick Bell believes that he has succeeded. With a team of researchers, he has produced a vaccine without the paralytic factor, which is still effective against rabies in guinea pigs. Vaccine producers throughout the country are testing the process, getting ready to use it in making human vaccine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Man & Dog | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Government's inquiring eye on itself -and determine how the government's . . . bodies contribute to the delinquency of small business." But reforms, if any, will not do him any good, he says; "neither . . . investigations, decrees nor edicts . . . can bring me back to life as a competitive factor in the oil marketing business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Swallowed Up | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Stomach Specialist Sandweiss, working with Surgeon Harry C. Saltzstein, decided to call the unknown factor "anthelone" (from the Greek words for anti-ulcer). They could not isolate it, but they got encouraging results from experimental injections of a urine extract in both animal and human ulcer victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nature's Irony | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Most encouraging factor was the appearance of the $200 (or, rather, the ($199.95) television set on the market. It was a good set and, under liberalized installment-buying regulations, within reach of most U.S. pocketbooks. Commercial sponsors, after their summer desertion, were beginning to come back to the fold-TV networks have more business scheduled for this autumn than ever before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Leaning Tower of Babel | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Economic Line. Nozaka might have mentioned another factor: shrewd, persistent plugging of the line that the U.S. and ECA countries will have an early economic collapse has impressed many non-Communist Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Wave | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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