Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peyton Rous showed as long ago as 1911 (his findings were unpopular at the time) that one cancer (sarcoma) in chickens is caused and can be transmitted by a virus. Over the years, viruses were found to cause other tumors in birds and lower animals. But the gap between them and man seemed unbridgeable. Then the University of Minnesota's Dr. John J. Bittner showed that breast cancer in certain mice is transmitted by a factor, now accepted as a virus, in mouse mothers' milk. This led to the establishment of mouse "dairies," and the painstaking milking...
Wake Up. Snow suspects that the Russians have judged the situation more sensibly. "They have a deeper insight into the scientific revolution than we have, or than the Americans have; the gap between the cultures doesn't seem to be anything like so wide as with us. One finds that their novelists can assume in their audience-as we cannot-at least a rudimentary acquaintance with what industry is all about . . . An engineer in a Soviet novel is as acceptable, so it seems, as a psychiatrist in an American...
...West has little time to wake up, says Snow. "Closing the gap between our cultures is a necessity in the most abstract intellectual sense as well as in the most practical. When those two senses have grown apart, then no society is going to be able to think with any wisdom. For the sake of the intellectual life ... for the sake of the Western society living precariously rich among the poor, for the sake of the poor who needn't be poor if there is intelligence in the world, it is obligatory for us and the Americans...
...Britain been so buoyant, so prosperous." Britain's export boom broke new records in May, and came within a hairbreadth of bringing the long-coveted balance of trade. Last week the government announced that May exports reached an all-time peak of $866,300,000, leaving a trade gap of only $4,200,000, the lowest recorded since the government began keeping figures in the mid-19th century...
Excellent Show. The gap was so small (compared with $110 million in April) that it could actually be written off as the .difference in accounting methods used for imports and exports. Considering Britain's invisible exports in the shape of earnings from shipping, banking and insurance overseas, British economists feel that their balance of payments actually shows a surplus. Said jubilant Sir David Eccles, president of the British Board of Trade: "An excellent show. This is due to the vigorous search for markets abroad which our businessmen made when home trade was not so good. Now they will...