Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon. But last week he got a rude surprise. When he tried to make appointments for talks with General Matthew Ridgway, Admiral Robert B. Carney, Lieut. General James Gavin and other high brass, he was turned down cold. Other Pentagon newsmen had similar experiences. An Army, Navy, Air Force Journal staffer asked for obituary material on a Marine brigadier general, did not get it until the handout was marked "reviewed and cleared" by a Navy captain...
Newark Star-Ledger (circ. 200,371) Long Island Press (217,040) Long Island Star-Journal (78,858) Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard (89,399) Syracuse Herald-Journal (133,704) Jersey City Jersey Journal...
...loop of platinum wire and grew the stuff by itself. In the fluid in which it multiplied was a something that killed several kinds of microbes. The mold was a variety of penicillium, and Fleming called the unseen but magical substance penicillin. He wrote about it in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. One man paid close heed: Chemist Harold Raistrick extracted a crude form of penicillin, but was advised by senior doctors that it had no future as a medicine for humans-it was too unstable. Fleming's mold was forgotten...
...stars, but they know almost nothing about Venus, the earth's nearest (26 million miles) planetary neighbor. Its size, density and period of rotation are all uncertain, and no one has glimpsed its surface, which is always covered with clouds as opaque as marshmallows. In the latest Astrophysical Journal, Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory tells how he learned at least a few facts about cloud-wrapped Venus...
...Fulbright, that encouraging people to come into the market now, as the New York Stock Exchange has been doing, is "rather risky"? Galbraith agreed. In fact, said he, stock margins should be raised from the current 60% to 100%, to discourage new investors. After Galbraith finished, the New York Journal-American's Financial Columnist Leslie Gould suggested a headline to describe the effects of his testimony: EGGHEAD SCRAMBLES MARKET...