Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cloakroom Tyrant. At that point, the resemblance to other schools stopped. The Capitol Page School, an offshoot of the District of Columbia school system, is attended by the House's 49 page boys, the Senate's 21, the Supreme Court's four, and a few more Capitol-employed boys. School starts at 6:30 a.m. every weekday, lets out at 9:39 a.m.; work begins at 9:49 a.m., ends usually between 5 and 6 p.m. Homework is light. The student-pages are paid $246.95 a month; tuition is free...
...deadly virus of Russian spring-and-summer encephalitis, injected it into the abdominal cavity of cancerous mice. In about two days the firm, round tumors turned into blobs of pus. All the cancer cells apparently died. But the virus then went on and attacked the nerves and brain. Four days later the mice, apparently cured of cancer, died of encephalitis. Nonetheless, the virus had shown a dramatic differential effect. It went first to the tumor and thrived there before attacking the brain...
Some types of thyroid cancer do not respond to this treatment. The cells cannot be trained to take up iodine and kill themselves. But many patients have been helped to some extent. In four of them the disease has been definitely checked, though not wiped out entirely...
...other four: Great Western Sugar Co., Holly Sugar Corp., Amalgamated Sugar Co., American Crystal Sugar...
Wheat Deal. Under pressure of the second largest wheat crop on record, the U.S. ratified the international wheat agreement (TIME, April 4), which gives U.S. farmers an annual export market of 168 million bushels for four years. The wheat pact, which will cost taxpayers an estimated $84 million in subsidies to farmers for the first year's exports (because export prices will be lower than domestic support prices), goes into effect July...