Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years Mr. Flexner has been conducting a survey of medical education throughout the world. German and Austrian universities, he found "suffering economically." "France has been quite stationary," except insofar as the acquisition of the University of Strasbourg gives the country, for the first time, a modern medical school plant. In Great Britain appear signs of a new vitality in medical teaching; full time teachers have been established in London and Edinburgh schools; research is being conducted in a well organized manner under a Medical Research Council...
...laboratory not been destroyed by lightning. Suit was brought against him in the New York State Supreme Court. Many of his statements were proved false or were at variance with known scientific laws. Two disinterested illuminating engineers, Cyprian O. Maillaux and Clayton H. Sharp, after investigating the plant at Harrison, N. J., reported: "Nothing was shown which would convince us that the apparatus has any practical application, or that it has any industrial or commercial value...
Artificial Fertilization. Biologists had long known that certain low invertebrates, such as rotifers or plant lice, normally reproduce themselves without fertilization by the male, by a process called parthenogenesis (virgin birth). Loeb proved that in many other species parthenogenesis can be induced artificially by treating the egg in various ways, i.e., keeping it in sea water, in salt or sugar concentrations at a certain temperature, in certain acid solutions, pricking it with a needle. In 1899 he caused the unfertilized eggs of sea-urchins to 'develop into swimming larvae and remain alive. Similar results were obtained with starfish, worms...
...York Edison Co., who has made New York the model light and power city of the world. Over 30 years ago, when Lieb was just out of Stevens Tech, he got a job with Thomas A. Edison. The firm had a contract to build a great electrical plant in Italy. "Send Lieb," said Edison. He was only 22, but he did the job and stayed in charge of the Italian company for 12 years. Lieb's story, together with those of the 13 previous recipients of the Edison Medal, is told by J. Olin Howe in the February Success...
This financial growth in the Gillette Safety Razor Co. only reflects its more fundamental growth in production and power of distribution. Last year the company acquired a new power plant and office building, this March an addition to its Boston factory will be opened, with a second addition scheduled to open early in 1925. At the same time, distributing facilities are being expanded in all parts of the world, including the Americas, Cuba, Europe, the West Indies and even the Orient...