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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert L. Levy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, conducted extensive tests ... on the effects of cigarette smoking on the heart. At the 69th Annual Session of the American Medical Association on June 12, 1947, he said: "It has been our experience, over a period of years, that most patients with a cardiac disorder, including those with disease of the coronary arteries, can smoke moderately without apparent harm. In fact, for many, smoking not only affords pleasure but aids in promoting emotional stability...
They managed a judicial air. Despite management's worst fears, they had not gone overboard for the cause of labor. They had, for example, upheld the right of the separate states to pass laws against closed shops; they had sternly and righteously reminded John L. Lewis of the majesty of the law, upheld his conviction for contempt...
...good example of the interaction of research and clinical study is the work of Rawson's group and of Dr. L. D. Marinelli on the treatment of thyroid cancer with radioactive iodine. Since the thyroid gland eagerly absorbs iodine (which it uses to make a hormone), doctors have hoped that a cancerous thyroid would absorb radioactive iodine 131 in sufficient quantity to kill the unruly cells. Unfortunately, this effort was none too successful. The normal thyroid took up nearly all the iodine. The cancerous thyroid cells, particularly the metastases in distant parts of the body, took up so little...
Like her brother, L. M. Giannini,* the bank's president, Claire Giannini grew up in the shadow of fiery old A.P., who thought of little else except his business. As a child she traveled extensively with him, soaked up politics and economics. She attended Oakland's Mills College for two years, then became A.P.'s private secretary...
...hunt was organized. It was not easy, because figuring out where the Bismarck would head for was just educated guesswork. Later it became known that there had been a hot argument aboard her. Captain Lindemann wanted to return to Germany; iron-willed Fleet Admiral Günther Lütjens, senior officer on board, ordered a westward dash. Systematically the Admiralty planted every available cruiser and destroyer across likely lines of escape. At 10:30 a.m. on May 26, the Bismarck was spotted by a Catalina patrol plane southwest of Ireland. This time Sir John Tovey's own flagship...