Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since May, U.S.-Argentine trade has increased roughly 50%. The Argentines are gradually paying off their short-term U.S. debt. Perón has told Bruce that Argentina, which once more is trading at world prices, will shortly fold up its state-trading agency...
...every 100 male cancer victims, ten have cancer of the prostate, but only one of the ten gets to a doctor in time for successful treatment. In the current American Journal of Surgery, Dr. Robert Gutierrez of New York suggests that this proportion may eventually be raised to eight out of ten. His method: stilbestrol is used first to reduce an advanced cancer (too far gone to be surgically removed) to smaller, more manageable size. Then, he says, the growth can be cut out and the patient may have years of useful life...
When the discovery of cortisone was announced last spring by four Mayo Clinic researchers (TIME, May 2), sufferers from arthritis* got a guarded flicker of hope for the future; cortisone almost always eases the symptoms of their crippling affliction. But the new drug is only a palliative, not a cure, and must be used continuously or the symptoms return. It is also pitifully scarce...
...Truman, who passed him on to Oscar Ewing, Federal Security administrator. U.S. scientists had already been ordered to Liberia to study the plants, collect seeds, and investigate the possibilities of large-scale cultivation there, or of transplanting to the U.S. After talking with Laurence, Ewing expansively declared that "this may be to chemistry what the atomic bomb was to physics," and asked for a $1,750,000 appropriation for research...
...open a new store called Zizz-Buzz, on the late Keedoozle site in Memphis. Customers will "zizz right in and buzz right on out," shopping the same way as in a supermarket. Said Clarence Saunders: "I am really fed up with gadgets...regardless of how miraculous and wonderful they may...