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...June 1939, he injected a solution of the powder into 56 mice. Results to date: 1) 36 mice have died of various diseases; 2) seven are still alive and healthy; 3) "13 tumors have appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Liver & Cancer | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...Author Struthers Burt (The Delectable Mountains, Festival, Powder River) has approximately no chance whatever of being drafted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Gustavo Cuervo Rubio, for help. Under Cuervo's guidance he plunged across the street, burst into the Council shouting: "Unconstitutionality!" Like a match in a powder keg, this touched off a fiery debate. Presently Mayor Menocal gave up, sat down. Now thoroughly humiliated-as the Communist-keyed majority of the Council intended he should be-Mayor Menocal decided they all might just as well hold the induction ceremonies in the Municipal Building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Mayor Rebuffed | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Showing no surprise over these revelations, Chairman Martin Dies next day trumpeted that there were 300,000 fifth columnists in the U. S. Industry was honeycombed with potential saboteurs, he said, and ominously predicted an outbreak any day of incidents like the "recent Hercules Powder explosion in New Jersey" -unless the Federal Government took steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Spies and Dies | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

High electronic magnifications (105,000 diameters) of vinylchloride polymer, a rubberlike synthetic, show a mottling of dots which scientists assume to be actual molecules; 25,000-diameter pictures of soft face-powder granules reveal the jagged projections which make them cling to the skin. Electron photographs of typhoid germs and intestinal bacteria disclose delicate, wavy filaments which may be their means of locomotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smaller & Smaller | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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