Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radioactive evidence underlined the hotly debated importance of fats in the diet of patients with coronary atherosclerosis (narrowing of the heart's arteries by fatty deposits). A Philadelphia team headed by Dr. William Likoff fed volunteers a test meal containing radioactive fat. In normal subjects the fat concentration in the blood reached its peak in six hours, almost disappeared in 24 hours. In subjects with high blood levels of cholesterol, or with coronary disease, or with both, the fat reached a higher concentration in the blood, and much more of it remained there 24 hours later. The researchers...
...Albany and Quebec and westward to Chicago and St. Louis, serve the nation's most highly industrialized area. The lines own millions of dollars in property (including Grand Central station and a huge chunk of Park Avenue real estate, Pennsy's Pennsylvania Stations in New York and Philadelphia), employ 184,000 workers, last year transported 80 million passengers and hauled 378 million tons of freight...
Railroaders themselves are increasingly skeptical of the value of lightweight trains for main-line service. The Pennsylvania, after experimenting with lightweight trains between Washington and Philadelphia, ordered six new light electric cars of a more conventional design from Budd Co. for commuter service. The Chicago & North Western checked lightweight trains, but instead ordered 13 conventional-weight cars last week from Pullman-Standard. Surveying the trend, N. C. Dezendorf, boss of General Motors' electromotive division, admitted: "Several years ago, when lightweight trains were first discussed, there was tremendous enthusiasm among railroads for them. I was turning down orders. There...
...visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, where the family had settled, the late great Pianist Josef Hofmann granted the four-year-old 20 precious minutes. Amazed, he listened to her for two hours, then got her a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, offering to teach her himself. Later she was sent abroad to study and took lessons (all free) from Egon Petri, Artur Schnabel, Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Backhaus. Said Sergei Rachmaninoff: "In one year you will be magnificent. In two years you will be unbelievable . . . Would you like some cookies...
...PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2 -- The sharp halfback play which was largely responsible for last week's win over Dartmouth was notably absent today, and the Crimson soccer team bowed to an improved Penn squad, 6 to 2. The win was the first Ivy victory for the Quakers, and dropped the Crimson to a 1-1-1 record in league play...