Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular, "common sense" notion that well-fed people are most likely to keep healthy is not necessarily true. Recent research shows that the common diseases of childhood are no more prevalent among poorly fed children than among children stuffed with spinach, fruit and fish-oil vitamins. Research also shows that well-fed adults suffer as much as anyone else from the common cold and influenza...
...minus one minute, Commander Murphy began to count in five-second intervals. When he reached "X minus 35 seconds," Milton Rosen of the Naval Research Laboratory ordered, "Recorders...
Thereafter Murphy was careful to call it the "instrument section." For the record, the Navy maintains that its rockets are strictly for peaceful research...
They documented more or less factual claims to superior quality ("Tests by independent research laboratories prove . . ."). They sponsored contests, told jokes, wrote essays, and often told a straight story about the things they had to sell. They appealed - and thus redeemed their sins of excess - to all men's desire for better things by dazzling them with glowing pictures of the new & better things American industry was making. But always present was advertising's simplest and most potent symbol, the female figure...
...university politics. He takes a better paying job with a machine-tool company, where he buries his ethics and tries to wiggle into a managerial position. But Erik's big pitch is a big flop; his employer outmaneuvers him. So he signs up with the Government as a research physicist, helps split the atom and make the bomb possible. In postwar Washington (and still panting after the big money 5, he is about to team up with malefactors of great wealth who want to kidnap atomic energy for private profit. But a Congressman's rabble-rousing speech sickens...