Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poison oak, doctors wanted a preventive to be taken by mouth, because injected extracts sometimes caused worse irritation than they were supposed to prevent. New York University's Biochemist Margaret B. Strauss developed the tablets, Dr. Robert J. Langs tested them on Coast Guardsmen clearing brush along lower Mississippi waterways. Result: up to 95% effective for at least six months. Trade-named Aqua Ivy, the tablets are nonprescription. Still under investigation: use of Aqua Ivy injections for victims who already have severe ivy poisoning. Doctors report some dramatic improvements within hours...
...went home, he got bluer when he cried. Kent grew normally, but whenever he tried to play tag with other youngsters, he turned blue and gasped for breath. When he was five, doctors at the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital found that his heart had only one ventricle (lower chamber). The result was that freshly oxygenated blood from the lungs was mixed in this chamber with used venous blood and pumped both ways-some back to the lungs, some out through the arteries. Kent also had his aorta and pulmonary artery transposed and had a narrowed valve leading from heart...
...Anna Piper, an English authoress from Lower Mall, London, described her novels as "light, middle-class, and sexy." "I'm almost the least 'academic person' in the crowd," she said. Her novels include Early to Bed, Green for Love, and The Hot Year. Mrs. Piper finishes a book a year and has a seventh...
HAMILTON WATCHES will be assembled in Switzerland to take advantage of lower Swiss wages (one-third the level of U.S. wages). Swiss watch cartel voted to admit Hamilton, first firm to come in since cartel was started in 1934 (other U.S. watchmakers, e.g., Bulova, Benrus, began producing earlier in Switzerland...
...gains helped wipe out the first-quarter downturn in earnings. Net profits for the second quarter totaled $233 million, v. $214 million for the same quarter last year. Revenues were $1.66 billion, v. $1.57 billion last year. Said President Kappel: "While our current rate of gain is lower than in the last few years, nevertheless it is still substantial. We are confident, too, that growing America will continue to want, buy and use more telephone service tomorrow than today...