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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barlow hopes that New York University's College of Medicine and the Public Health Service, through experiments on animals, can find a curative drug for schistosomiasis that can be taken orally. He believes that such a drug may possibly be found within the next two years...
...They also need a new kind of knowledge. To help uranium prospectors, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Geological Survey last week issued a handbook, written in simple language, called Prospecting for Uranium (Government Printing Office; 30?). It describes various uranium ores, tells where they are apt to be found and how they can be identified...
...rather plaintive chapter in the Government's booklet answers some questions which the AEC has been getting from would-be prospectors. The Government, it says, will not finance prospectors, nor will it lend or rent Geiger counters. It discourages people who write that they have found a place where their watches or compasses don't work (uranium does not affect watches or compasses). And phosphorescence (from decayed stumps at night) is not a sign that uranium is present...
...biology, his own science. He tells how, step by step, Trofim Lysenko, a "scientifically illiterate" plant-breeder, was enthroned as absolute boss of Soviet biology with all his opponents "dismissed or disgraced." Dr. Huxley knows Lysenko and considers him a better politician than a scientist. In conversations he found that Lysenko and his followers "simply do not talk the same language as Western men of science." Much of Professor Huxley's long article consists of quotations from Soviet official scientific bodies and officially approved scientists. They clearly show that Soviet scientists are no longer free to seek for truth...
...Diego's clearing house for good works. He raised $40,000 to buy shoes for needy youngsters, rounded up 600 wheelchairs for cripples, organized an annual Santa Helper campaign to provide money, clothes and toys, ran a depression Job-Finding Club, bought Seeing Eye dogs for the blind, found homes for orphaned children...