Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard R. Overman of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine announced that a drug called amino-ethylisothiuronium (AET for short), a sulfhydryl-related compound, has been 100% effective in protecting monkeys from the immediate effects of lethal radiation. AET was developed at the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Still to be determined: the drug's long-term effect on the treated monkeys and any possible application to humans. Working on another AEC project, Overman is testing the effect of bone marrow injections on radiation damage. High doses of radiation disrupt the normal production...
Boston's fishing fleet has steadily resisted change. Fish are still scooped from the trawlers with pitchforks that damage much of the catch, trundled off in ancient, scale-covered wooden carts, dumped into insanitary oak barrels. The Fulhams plan to install modern handling equipment, are also constructing the pier's first rendering plant to convert trash fish into meal for animal food and fertilizer, thus give the fleet a profitable incentive to go after porgies and other cheap fish when good fish are scarce...
...Acadia," and means "a happy, prosperous land." The state would thus be the first in the alphabetical list of states and entitled to nominate Presidents ahead of Alabama. As it is, West Virginia makes the 17th seconding speech, at 3:30 the next morning. MONROE WORTHINGTON Editor Fayette Tribune Oak Hill, West...
...long, low, $112,000 clinic building that bears no resemblance to standard medical surroundings. Patients arriving for their 50-minute hours last week were ushered through the Oregon-basalt entrance into the spacious waiting rooms, screened by a shoji. The long, sky-lit corridor (which has warm, hand-rubbed oak-flooring walls) leads to the ten consulting rooms, each soundproofed to silence, looks out through a full glass wall onto a serene, narrow garden court planted with vine maples and deciduous huckleberries, and backed by a plastic fence paneled in off-white, honey and burnt orange...
...Meaning of Wealth." Before the 52nd Street house was sold. Plant called in Architect Guy Lowell, supervising architect of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, to design the new mansion, including a library of Jacobean carved-oak paneling (see cut). To furnish the town house, Antique Dealer Arthur Vernay ransacked his own collection, sent scouts throughout Europe. The result has borne well the test of time. For the jade, Chinese porcelains, 18th-century French furniture, paneling, fixtures. Royal Beauvais tapestries by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, paintings by Watteau, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Romney and Raeburn. the current market will pay back...