Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find that the disease is invariably fatal, Zigas hurriedly shipped blood and brain specimens from victims to Melbourne's famed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, hoping that the laboratories would find a virus cause for the disease. They found none. Next a pathologist, anthropologist, dietitian, psychiatrist and psychologist hit the mountain trails. They eliminated emotional factors as causes of kuru, found no clue to a physical cause...
...like valentines, and I don't blame the public for not liking them." The speaker, whose signature is simply "Marx," is as masculine as a powderpuff. Marcia Marx Bennett, 26, is a wife, mother-and a good painter. Last week the pretty blonde from Newark had a smash hit show at Mexico City's Institute Nacional de Bellas Artes, the first American woman painter and the second American ever invited to hold a one-artist show there...
Peculiar Problems. But despite such impressive foundations, both roads are in serious trouble. Both have been hard hit by rising costs, declining revenues, and the heavy inroads of competition from trucks, airplanes and buses. In addition to competing with "subsidized" forms of transportation, said Symes and Perlman, their roads have suffered from "long delayed and inadequate rate increases, refusal to permit abandoning of unprofitable and unpatronized trains and facilities, inadequate payment for carrying mail, discriminatory excise taxes, excessive state and local taxes, unfair assessments for highway crossings, and other artificial burdens...
...million expansion that will add another 3,000,000 tons. As he stepped down, Beth Steel was in glowing health. While other makers operated at about 80% capacity, Bethlehem was pouring 91%. And for the first nine months, the company announced last week, Beth Steel's sales hit a record $2,002,000,000 while earnings also reached a new peak of $144 million...
...annual meeting of the Atomic Industrial Forum in Manhattan's Plaza hotel last week, the Atomic Energy Commission hit the uranium business with a hydrogen bomb. Said AEC's Raw Materials Chief Jesse Johnson: "We have arrived at the point where it is no longer in the interest of the Government to expand production of uranium concentrate...