Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polio publicity has made polio research dollar-rich, while other less dramatized diseases are dime-poor. In spite of research, however, there is no known way to prevent polio nor to cure it. Addressing the First International Poliomyelitis Conference in Manhattan last week, Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, medical director of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, said: "We may be fighting not one disease, but a whole family of slightly related diseases. We do know already that there are several strains of infantile paralysis capable of producing clinical symptoms, but we do not know how closely related these virus...
Furthermore, research . . . and studies now being made of the plays and poems prove beyond doubt that the true author of these . . . was the 17th Earl of Oxford, using the pseudonym, "William Shakespeare." His noblest drama, Hamlet, was largely autobiographical...
...current Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, Seelye argues for an employment agency for retired professors willing and able to continue teaching. Smaller colleges, Seelye suggests, could use these academic castoffs at less than full salary on light teaching or research schedules...
Down to Earth. After nine years of research, H. A. Brassert Co. of New York City came up with a new trick in reducing ore to iron. By using anthracite instead of coke, Brassert can produce pure melting stock at $21 to $26 a ton (current average cost: $40); from the waste gas Brassert will make solid CO² (Dry Ice) at $15 a ton (present retail price: $35 to $65). In a new $1,250,000 iron-ice plant at New York, Brassert hopes to make enough the first year to pay off half the construction cost...
Last spring a five-man team of doctors at the British Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur, about 200 miles from Singapore, began treating victims of scrub typhus with the new antibiotic* called chloromycetin (TIME, Nov. 10). Chloromycetin reduced the fever in one day. But in two cases the fever did not go down until the third day. The doctors checked again, found that the two third-day patients actually had typhoid fever. They picked eight cases of known typhoid fever, again reduced the fever in three days. Three cases of typhoid in Baltimore hospitals later responded the same...