Word: journals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians can achieve their goal in drug research they will be, in effect, ten feet tall by 1960. This is suggested by an article in the Moscow journal, Pharmacology and Toxicology, about the Soviets' five-year plan (1956-60) for pharmacological research. A major aim of the Soviet plan, as translated last week by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is to develop "pharmacological substances that normalize higher nervous activity and heighten human capacity for work." In plain English, the Russians are looking for drugs like the "psychic energizers" foreseen by New York's Dr. Nathan S. Kline...
...admitted for heart surgery dies of a staph infection, his death is attributed to the original heart trouble. Example: in Seattle and surrounding King County, only four deaths (out of 7,837) in 1956 were listed as caused by staph. But Dr. Reimert T. Ravenholt estimates in the American Journal of Public Health that fully 100 and perhaps more than 200 deaths should have been so listed...
Blood plasma pooled from many donors can be rendered free of the dangerous hepatitis virus if kept at room temperature for six months. University of Cincinnati researchers reported in the A.M.A. Journal after a four-year study. The finding means that plasma can safely be given promptly to battle casualties or accident victims. Also, since the plasma can be kept indefinitely, much blood and plasma now wasted can be put to use. Still not known: how to make whole blood safe from hepatitis virus...
While most national magazines are out after new subscribers, so they can raise their advertising rates, the Farm Journal is earnestly doing just the opposite. The 81-year-old monthly is trying to winnow some 220,000 non-farm readers out of its circulation of 3,533,956 and is already paring its ad rates accordingly. Last week readers without R.F.D. addresses were considering a special query from the magazine: "Do you own, operate, live on, work on a farm, or do business with a farmer?" If the answer was no, the subscriber got the choice of a cash rebate...
...onetime Chief Justice (appointed 1920) of the Supreme Court of China; after long illness; in Taipei, Formosa. Born in Canton, educated at Peiyang University, Yale University and in Europe, ubiquitous Scholar Wang was author of the standard English translation of the German Civil Code, onetime co-editor of the Journal of the American Bar Association, pen behind the Yueh Fa (China's modernized code of laws...