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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glycogen. The $5,000 annual award of the Sugar Research Foundation went to Austrian-born Dr. Carl Cori of Washington University Medical School, St. Louis. Pale, tall Dr. Cori, 51, specializes in sugar, the basic fuel of human metabolism. For 20 years he has traced the progress of sugar through the body, watched it turn into glycogen (animal starch), measured how much glycogen is stored in the muscles and liver...
Winter before last, Gardon had struck coal while digging in his field. Since fuel was short, he had taken the coal from the backyard. Sadly Gardon looked at the seven-foot hole in the ground. Said he: "C'est fini. I've been nationalized...
Plucked from the far North-West, Varsity coach Tom Bolles is relatively foreign to this Crimson crew tradition, even though he has consistently added fuel to the fire of crew talk with an undefeated record against the Elis. But Bolles is no foreigner to crew...
...outgrowth of Yalta. To the north were 10,000,000 Koreans under Soviet rule, with nearly all the nation's industrial resources but little agriculture. To the south were 20,000,000 Koreans under U.S. rule, with nearly all the nation's agricultural resources but little industry, fuel or power...
...would veer north, and get a similar boost. Radioed reports from ships, from shore or from other planes help him figure out the situation. Frequently a properly plotted pressure course, though covering a longer sea distance, saves more, than an hour on a transatlantic flight. It also saves fuel and money-a modern, four-engined airplane costs $1,000 an hour to operate...