Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas Cancer Bulletin was started early in 1948 by Dr. Randolph Lee Clark Jr., director of Texas University's M.D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research, in Houston. He had a sound idea: most cancer patients are seen first by general practitioners who cannot cull all the journals for specialized articles; therefore they should be taught, through short, snappy, easy-to-read articles, how to spot the disease quickly...
When the company began to run out of money, Barbour found an angel in American Research & Development Corp., a venture-capital group of hardheaded New England businessmen (TIME, Aug. 19, 1946). With $150,000 of American Research's money, and the stock issue, Tracerlab was put on firm footing...
...Petiteen dresses because they need no alteration and have a money-back guarantee." The voice of the mannequin, developed by Audio-Visual Advertising Co., comes from a loudspeaker concealed inside the chest, and is synchronized with lip movements. Price: $284. ¶ Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation announced a cheap method for adding sound to 8-and 16-mm. home movies by putting magnetic material along the edge of the film to make a sound track. With a special sound adapter on his projector, the amateur may dub in a commentary, though...
Ward knew that the wartime textile boom would not last forever. Three years ago he set his research chief, Everett Nutter, to developing a new cloth to meet the hot competition of rayons and tropical worsteds. The shakedown in the textile industry came before Nutter's new fabric was ready. In the first three quarters of Goodall-Sanford's last fiscal year, the company's profits fell 51%; Ward quickly decided on his price-cut to clear out stocks for his new fabric...
...stretch-running threat of RCA might mean the loss of nine years' work and $3,500,000 in color research. But CBS President Frank Stanton rallied gamely. It is important, said Stanton, "to have color TV come quickly by the best available system . . ." Looking ahead to this month's important hearings before FCC, he added: "CBS color TV has been proved through numerous tests and demonstrations . . . We will look forward to studying similar tests and demonstrations of the latest RCA system...