Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrunken body, doctors gave him large amounts of vitamin B complex, beef essence, apple pulp, plasma. Sulfa drugs and penicillin helped clean out the small army of virulent germs. Now Thin-Man Goddard has pushed his weight up to 121 Ibs. (normal: 156), and can walk a little. In two or three months, perhaps, he may leave the hospital...
Fifi had given normal birth to one kitten, then continued in labor without further result. Petersen probed her pelvic region, noted that no more kittens were on the way, attempted to stimulate labor with Pituitrin. When the drug failed to act, he operated, found that the afterbirth had become wrapped around the body of a second kitten, killing it and blocking further delivery. A third kitten, delivered more dead than alive through the incision, was revived by artificial respiration...
...sorely bruised Central America's banana trade. In 1943 it shrank to less than a shriveled fifth of prewar normal. While the banana liners were diverted to more pressing runs, the golden fruit was left to rot where it grew. United Fruit, first lord of the banana empire, maintained its dividends mainly through revenue from ships and Cuban sugar estates. In Central America, United helped make up for U.S. losses of Manila hemp (and incidentally kept Central Americans employed) by cultivating needed abac...
Conclusions reached by the Green-Bittner experiments: viruses are now shown to be more closely linked with the cancer problem; virus-infected cancer cells are entirely foreign to normal mouse cells; anti-cancer agents in the serum cause no damage to normal cells...
Viewers-with-alarm talked of the overcrowding as "the veteran problem," but it was more than that. Besides the normal influx from prep schools there were thousands of young war workers who had put aside schooling while there was big money to be made, and now wanted to catch up. So far, 300,000 ex-G.I.s were enrolled; by fall, educators expected at least...