Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four U.S. engineers arrived to try to improve Jordan's incredible desert railroads (of 21 locomotives, only five are operable) and to devise a method of speeding up the unloading of cargo at the shallow-draft port of Aqaba. For the British, who are holding the lid tight on this boiling cauldron, the situation is becoming critical. Each possible move seems to create more problems than it solves...
...bird and animal diseases, most of the time at the University of California's Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, of which he is director emeritus. There he developed an effective way of keeping parakeets free of the psittacosis virus by frequent injections of chlortetracycline (Aureomycin). But the injection method was costly and impractical for most budgie owners. Backed by Manhattan's Hartz Mountain Products Corp. (bird feeds and medications), Dr. Meyer spent three more years finding an effective way to impregnate the birds' feed with the antibiotic in a uniform and stable concentration. A few months...
...Harvard Summer Theatre Group was created by the simple method of gathering. Once those theatre people already in Cambridge came together, several Summer School students also interested in the theatre joined them, to bring new talent and ways of doing things that eventually brought the productions into being. The problems they met were the same that face theatre groups in the winter, as well as new worries presented by the particular situation of a summer in Cambridge. But the obstacles were overcome and the new group began production...
Many U.S. firms have discovered that the best and safest method is to buy a partnership in a European firm. Faced with much stiffer competition in the common market, European manufacturers are eager to get U.S. cash and technical know-how to help them meet it. A U.S. firm, on the other hand, can profit from its European partner's intimate knowledge of his market and area...
...Dose. In addition, FTC singled out Pfizer for a more serious charge, saying that it had "made false, misleading and incorrect" statements when it obtained the basic tetracycline patent in 1955. Tetracycline already had been on the market for a year from various mak ers, and the patented method of manufacture was not truly an invention because it was "obvious to anyone having ordinary skill" in the antibiotics art. If sustained by the Federal Trade Commission after hearings start Oct. 1, this charge could lead to an FTC request to relax the Pfizer patent...