Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million young men between 18 and 25 stood in patient lines. First to register were the 25-year-olds, who would also be the first to be inducted. Thereafter, eligible men would be called in order of age. Most veterans, married men, men with dependents, public officials, research students, farmers and many others would be deferred. As a starter, the Army asked for 10,000 men for November induction...
...Lasker Foundation, formed in 1942, reflects the varied Lasker interests: fellowships for graduate students working with Sir Howard Florey, co-discoverer of penicillin (he picks the students); money for cancer research directed by the University of Chicago's Dr. Charles B. Huggins (his projects); research in hardening of the arteries, headed by Dr. Forrest Kendall at Manhattan's Goldwater Hospital...
...best simple explanation of the law of relativity.* Last week, when his lawyers opened his will (he died last month at 90), they learned that Bachelor Eugene Higgins had left $40 million to four universities (Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia) "for the general advancement of science through investigation, research, and experimentation...
...continuous caster is the offspring of a marriage between a steel producer and a user. Cleveland's Republic Steel Corp. did the first research, then got the boiler-making Babcock & Wilcox Co. to solve the enigma of high-speed transfer of heat. Republic, which has millions tied up in conventional equipment, holds that the revolution is still far off, but has agreed to license the process to anyone who wants...
...fictional history of the U.S. were ever smelted down from the extant tons of costume novels, some of the better chapters could be taken from Hervey Allen's books. Since he went to Bermuda 21 years ago to research and write Anthony Adverse, Author Allen (who now lives in the U.S.) has gone on plowing the past behind a strong but long-winded team of scholarship and storytelling. Toward the Morning is the third big volume in a pentalogy that began with The Forest and the Fort (TIME, April...