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Fifteen years ago, Yale Anatomist Harold Saxton Burr and New York University Gynecologist Louis Langman began to experiment with electrical tests for cancer. They had Yale Physicist Cecil T. Lane build a special microvoltmeter, which measures electrical potentials in microvolts (one-millionth of a volt). Last week, Researchers Burr and Langman announced preliminary results in diagnosing* cancer of the female genital tract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Anti-Social Cells | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

When Campbell started his work, only 1,400 variable stars--stars that change in brightness--were known. Now over 12,000 are listed in his files, with another 8,000 probable. He recorded his millionth observation a few years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symposium Fetes Campbell's 50th Year at College | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

Research like this was handy early in the war, when only a millionth of a gram of plutonium was available for study...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: University's Chemists Try Mustard Gas to Wipe Out Cancer Growths | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

...taken as 30 years, the population after the ensuing 200 generations would be 1.10²ººX2, or slightly under two persons per square mile, including deserts and oceans. The total would be less than one-sixth of the actual population of today, and less than one-millionth of the gruesome pile, packed as we were in the Rockwell Cage but 15 layers deep, envisaged by Dr. Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...modern Model A is out of the question--people just wouldn't buy it," Henry Ford II told a press conference at the Business School yesterday afternoon on the day that the American automobile industry produced its millionth car of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Job Forum Studies Writing; Ford Speaks at Busy School | 3/29/1949 | See Source »

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