Word: growth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Throw Them Out." With such a ready-made situation, Local 713's membership snowballed. Army officials, alarmed by U.P.W.A.'s growth and embarrassed by the old Jim Crow system, were ready to meet the union's demands, at least half way. By last week the union claimed these gains: 1) removal of the hateful gold and silver signs in public places; 2) an order admitting Panamanians to equal terms in civil service exams; 3) hourly wage hikes of 2? to 6?; 4) a 40-hour week; 5) improved vacation privileges; 6) more overtime...
...major problems confronted Woodward at the outset. First he had to find units which could be incorporated into the chains of the desired protein analogs. Then he had to devise a method for initiating the growth of the chain...
Sole previous method for producing gaint protein molecules directly involved the natural growth processes of living organisms. At the starting point of Woodward's process are alpha amino acids, which can readily be extracted from meat of vegetables...
...doses, the acid made the children restless and sleepless; in doses they could tolerate, it produced a remarkable improvement in alertness, drive, ability to solve problems. At the end of a year the children's I.Q.s had risen an average of eleven points. Their mental growth (a two-year advance in mental age) was twice as fast as that of normal children...
Manhattan's Memorial had podophyllin (an extract of mandrake root) on its research list; but through a laboratory accident some of the stuff prematurely got into test-tube cultures of cancerous and normal cells. It stopped the growth of the cancer cells, had no effect on the normal cells. Meanwhile, National Cancer Institute researchers tried podophyllin on mouse cancers, got comparable results...