Word: journals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Post-Bomb Leukemia. Another delayed effect of radiation has already been recognized in humans. Dr. William C. Moloney of Tufts Medical School and Dr. Robert D. Lange report in Blood, The Journal of Hematology on leukemia (blood cancer) among Japanese atom-bomb survivors. Most people near the centers of explosion at Hiroshima and Nagasaki died of heat or blast. Some survived these effects, but got heavy doses of gamma rays and neutrons. In Hiroshima, 750 people who had been within 1,000 meters (3,300 ft.) recovered from their radiation sickness and remained apparently well for years. Then an unusual...
...point, the Star Co. brought up a witness who testified that for the size of the paper's circulation, the Star's ad rates were among the lowest in the U.S. As to the Government's charge that the Star waited to drive the competing Journal-Post out of business before it increased its subscription price in 1942, Roberts testified flatly that the charge was not true. The Star, said he, had planned the increase before the Journal-Post went under. Like every other daily in the U.S., the Star was hit by rising costs and taxes...
...Although not a "direct danger," smoking causes harmful increases in the blood pressure and heart rate of heart-disease patients, reported three U.S. Public Health Service researchers in the A.M.A. Journal. Warned the Journal: "No patient with coronary disease should incur the added risk to his heart imposed by smoking without [consulting] his physician...
...engineers, not space cadets) says that the time has come to take the first step toward space flight. Last week the society petitioned the National Science Foundation to "sponsor a study of the utility of an unmanned earth satellite vehicle." In Jet Propulsion, the society's journal, a long list of eminent authorities tell what can be accomplished by an unmanned satellite revolving around the earth...
...knife in a large corporation, Patterns employed the same cast (Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Richard Kiley), to win the approval of those critics who had missed it earlier. But at week's end there was at least one strongly dissenting voice: the Watt Street Journal. In a long, viewing-with-alarm editorial, the Journal conceded the play's dramatic power but expressed shock at its ethical standards and concluded: ". . . It is a strange thing if this is what playwrights, critics and the public generally think of as the true mood, atmosphere and moral values of human beings...