Word: research
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cancer Research, the investigators describe ingenious mechanical smokers in which they burned pound after pound of pipe, cigar and cigarette tobacco. To make sure that cigarette paper is not a major factor, they had "all-tobacco" cigarettes specially made-wrapped in ordinary cigarette-tobacco leaf. Then they painted the collected tars on the shaved backs of mice, and counted the resulting cancers. While a mouse's back is admittedly not the same as the inside of a man's lung, histologists (tissue specialists) say that it is of essentially the same structure and shows similar reactions...
...time," according to Historian Samuel Eliot Morison* and to 16-year-old Bill Frazer the sea fight seemed a fine subject for a U.S. history-class term paper. But the skinny (5 ft. 11 in., 128 lbs.), scholarly San Fernando (Calif.) Senior High School junior was dissatisfied with the research material available-he knew of only about 250 books on the Pacific phase of World War II. So Bill who six years ago bought a set of lead models of Japanese fighting ships with his newspaper-route earnings, and began reading naval histories to trace the namesakes of his toys...
...that out when it jumped into atomics in 1954 after the Government first permitted firms to own reactors, was forced to drop out in the face of expense and uncertainty. Today, the maturing U.S. atomics industry is made up of about 100 major Government and privately owned manufacturing and research organizations. They range from such small firms as Baird-Atomic, Inc. and Nuclear Science and Engineering, with only a few million dollars worth of business in supplying the major atomics firms, to such giants as Westinghouse and Du Pont, whose contracts run into hundreds of millions (see box). Several...
...thrown all of G.E.'s energy and know-how into the atomic future. The company has $1.5 billion in Government contracts and more than $100 million in private contracts, has committed more men (14,000) to atomics, and spent more of its own money ($20 million) to build research facilities, than any other company. So far it has not made a dime on commercial business, but its hopes for the future are bright...
Cordiner shares his responsibilities with an executive office composed of President Robert Paxton, 56, and 13 vice presidents. The heads of the nine service divisions (e.g., accounting, management consultation, marketing) report directly to Cordiner, bear the chief burden of long-range planning and research. To Paxton, himself an old operating man, report such operating-group executives as Arthur F. Vinson. 51, head of G.E.'s important heavy industrial goods section, James H. Goss, 51, head of consumer products, and Cramer V. LaPierre, 54, boss of defense and atomics...