Word: growth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gilbert and Howard A. Schneiderman of Cornell University extracted a substance from the cortex of the adrenal glands of cattle. They found it had the same effect on silkworm pupae as the moth hormone. For the first time a hormone extracted from vertebrates was shown to influence the growth of invertebrate insects...
Pursuing the search, Physiologist Williams found a substance apparently identical with the juvenile hormone in nearly every animal material from tenderloin steak to the human placenta. The richest source in any mammal seems to be the thymus gland, which is believed to control growth. Significantly, Williams found no trace of his golden oil in any vegetable...
...juvenile hormone may prove to be a substance that controls growth in mammals as well as insects. But so far Dr. Williams has not isolated the pure hormone or determined its chemical character, points out that its presence in mammalian tissues may be only a biochemical curiosity...
...make a big mark on A. T. & T. was President Walter S. Gifford, a financial wizard and career telephone man who came up from the bottom. Gifford steered the burgeoning company from 1925 to 1948 through boom, depression and World War II, laid the foundation for its explosive postwar growth. During Gifford's reign, the Bell System's operating revenues rocketed from $655 million to $2.2 billion, and its phones multiplied like little black Shmoos from 11.2 million to 28.5 million. Gifford guided A. T. & T. intact through a federal antitrust investigation during the '30s, pushed...
...Support without reservation of the proposed new zoning ordinance (The University has already expressed its general approval of the ordinance, but says certain aspects of it might unduly hamper its growth...