Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catering to the particular tastes of its elderly and omnivorous readers is an obligation that President and Editor Nelson P. Poynter, whose family has owned this old-gold mine for years, is happy to discharge. Indeed, the oldsters have had a healthy effect on the paper itself. "They make you think twice before generalizing," said a Times staffer : "They really read the newspaper. They not only have the time, they have the informed interest. They're a challenge." Meeting that challenge has helped rank the St. Petersburg Times among the South's most solid newspapers...
...After a year at St. Louis' Washington University, he joined Manhattan's New York University, intensified his research on enzymes, the catalysts of life. In 1946 he had a brilliant post-doctoral student, Arthur Kornberg. Within ten years Dr. Ochoa and colleagues found a way to make an enzyme build up nucleic acids and, in effect, create a synthetic form of RNA. Brooklyn-born Dr. Arthur Kornberg, 41, graduated from the City College of New York at 19. Working for his M.D. at the University of Rochester, he picked up hepatitis, put the experience to good...
...identical with genes), the ability to synthesize biologically active forms may give man new power over the production of living things. And since RNAs are essential to growth, mastery of them might supply the answer to cancer, which is uncontrolled growth. Both modest men, neither Ochoa nor Kornberg would make such claims. Said Ochoa: "Now that I have won this honor, I guess I'll have to work harder...
...hours in Plains by 9. Says he: "I average 15 to 20 patients a day, and have worked every day since I came here. We try to close for lunch at 12, but we never can-something always comes up. At night I go back to the hospital and make house calls. The big need around here is for house calls, and I make two or three a day.'' Dr. Sills charges $3 for an office visit, $1.50 for an injection, but cuts the fees for the poor. Negro patients make up one-third of his practice. About...
...booming 1959, the strike dealt a smashing blow. In 13 weeks the roads lost an estimated $459 million in gross revenues. Railroad employment on Sept. 30 fell to 797,195, the lowest since 1900. Third-quarter rail earnings, when they come out in the next several weeks, will not make pleasant reading...