Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they averaged a little over three months between ulcers. After treatment, their average symptom-free period rose to a little over ten months; two patients have gone four years, nine months without ulcers; 40% for 2½ years; 17% got no better. His work, Dr. Ivy says, is still "research in progress," not yet a proved cure. He still does not know just what there is in enterogastrone that makes it work. He is now giving it by mouth (14 to 28 pills a day) as well as by injection (six shots a week...
...provide a moral synthesis which can guide our students wisely through a mass of contradictory [views] . . . It can be provided only though freedom of inquiry and discussion, and by . . . the personal idealism of [teachers] aware of the moral and spiritual implications of knowledge . . . Graduate schools and colleges which glorify research and publication at the expense of the art of teaching are guilty of a grave and perhaps irreparable sin against civilization. Communities which spend millions for alcohol, cosmetics and amusements, and what is left over for schools, are committing spiritual suicide. [We are] letting our world slide into an abyss...
...shape of things to come looked even nicer. Last week alone, no less than five new plants worth $15 million or more apiece were opened for production or research. U.S. Steel, which opened one of them near San Francisco (see below), planned to have another one near Los Angeles by 1950. Greenwood Mills announced a new $21 million expansion program; Sun Oil Co., a $70 million program; members of the American Gas Association will spend $3.3 billion. Westinghouse Electric Corp., which reported an alltime record in appliance production for September, saw no letup. Said Vice President J. H. Ashbaugh...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria one day last week, big wheels of the U.S. publishing industry watched a research engineer photograph a colleague. Just 45 seconds later, the engineer handed them a photograph, "developed" without a darkroom, chemicals, negative, or sensitized paper...
Then Rochester's Haloid Co., manufacturers of photographic supplies, got interested. It financed the Xerography research at Battelle in return for the exclusive commercial rights to the process...