Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE United Nations meeting was getting so bullish about "real" peace that it is probably a healthy thing the Russian bear caused a reaction...
...every ten members of the U.S. Army and Air Force has the wrong blood type marked on his identification tag, a group of doctors reported in the U.S. Armed Forces Medical Journal. Chief causes: rapid or careless testing, clerical errors. Chief danger: death from transfusion of incompatible blood types...
...Anderson and Harold W. Hermann of Minneapolis made a plea, in the A.M.A. Journal, for doctors to report extremely rare cases of leukemia in identical twins to medical groups involved in leukemia research. Purpose of the request: to learn more about hereditary factors in the disease by studying its effect on two humans coming from the same ovum...
...After three years, two months and 13 days of publishing the New Testament in daily installments (about 100 words), the Akron Beacon Journal set to work on the Old Testament. Estimated running time for the completed Bible: some 15 years...
...kept on looking. In 1892. promising "millions," he persuaded three fellow Beaumonters to back him, but all he returned was three dry Spindletop holes. He became the town bore. Beaumont residents sneeringly called him "the millionaire." Desperate for a believer, Higgins advertised in a New York trade journal the glowing promise of oil, gas and sulphur in Spindletop, and flushed one reply. It was enough. Dalmatian-born Anthony Lucas, one time Austrian naval lieutenant who came to the U.S. to visit and stayed on to work as a mining engineer, agreed to drill for oil on Spindletop...