Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transition came in World War. II with nitrogen mustard-synthesized for use as a poison gas. Cancer researchers began testing it. found that it killed cells in rough proportion to their rate of reproduction. Though it killed the cancer cells faster than the normal, it was still highly poisonous, could be given (by intravenous injection) only in small doses. And eventually the cancer cells became resistant to it. History has sadly repeated itself with scores of chemicals of this class (technically "alkylating agents") developed since. About 20 are credited with definite but limited usefulness...
Some 40,000 compounds got preliminary testing last year, with about one in 1,000 showing enough promise to be worth more trials in man, and the rate is expected soon to hit 60,000 a year. First test for every compound involves at least 18 mice, and the consumption of mice is enormous-more than 2,000,000 last year. All must be of pure, inbred strains. One of Rod Heller's worries is that the supply of these precious mice may not keep pace with the demand...
...jump in nonagricultural employment to the 60 million mark for the first time. Since agricultural employment is more subject to seasonal variances, the nonagricultural gain indicates a broad base of strength that is likely to increase. In addition to a steady employment increase, the Labor Department expects the rate of unemployment (which stayed steady in June because of the seasonal influx of students and June graduates) to drop to around 2,500,000 by October, between 3.5% and 4% of the work force...
...steel strike, may briefly drop a bit. After the drop they see a rise in output to an even higher level. Leading the way will be the 1960 auto model year that begins in October, and a capital-goods boom that is expected to run at the annual rate of $34 billion by the last quarter of this year...
...many men and industries will eventually be hurt depends mainly on how long stockpiles hold out. They now bulge at more than 21 million tons, a two-month supply, and the nonstruck 15% of the industry is adding to them at top-speed rate of 1,200,000 tons a month. Speaking for many an industrialist, Chairman Robert Black of White Motor Co. said: "We began preparing for this strike six or seven months ago. We've got a 60-to 90-day steel stock. But you never know-one missing item can stop your production. For want...