Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Penicillin seems to have done it again. A few cells of a certain kind of mouse cancer growing in a test tube have succumbed to the fabulous drug. The penicillin damaged or killed cancer cells, left normal cells unharmed. It took three times the cancer-killing dose of penicillin to...
The OSRD has produced over 200 unpublicized weapons and secret modifications to military equipment. 46 million dollars of the Office's budget were delegated to radar and radio co-ordination" development; nearly 20 million dollars went to "subsurface warfare" work--the science of killing U-boats. Officials are proud of...
For 26 months, as ODT boss, genial, drawling Joe Eastman had worked a killing 15 hours a day to keep U.S. transportation fluid. As ICC commissioner for 25 years he had labored to master transportation economics. No other man knew the subject so thoroughly. And in politics-ridden Washington he...
As a platoon sergeant he led men across the blood-dyed Rapido River three times, and three times had to pull back before overwhelming enemy strength. In combat reports Kelly is officially credited with killing at least 40 Germans. Admiring fellow infantrymen rib him as "Commando" Kelly, or "The One...
The answer is: plenty. The Album of American History is an eyeful of the artifacts which early Americans shaped and used and which (to the degree that things shape people) shaped the early Americans. The book contains 411 pages of houses, ancestors, Indian scalps, weathervanes, mousetraps, cannon, dolls, ships, skillets...