Word: rh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handsome price: Paris agreed to foot two-thirds of the bill and renounced its claims to the Saar; Germany paid only one-third of the cost, though nine-tenths of the canal flows through its territory. When the project is linked up with the Sâone and Rhône rivers through a complex system of canals, it will provide an unbroken waterway from Marseille to Rotterdam, a route first visualized by the Roman generals Nero Claudius Drusus and Gaius Antistius Vetus some 2,000 years...
Though men and women suffer misery-making allergic reactions to countless things, from ragweed pollen to wheat or eggs or the Rh factor from a husband's blood, medical researchers are confident that no one person can be allergic to another. But now there is a fast-growing body of evidence that something much more insidious and harder to understand may cause some of man's most common and crippling disorders. People, it seems, can become allergic to parts of themselves...
...through the rock. On the Swiss side, a 3.4-mile covered access road is lifted to the tunnel mouth by graceful concrete pylons. On the Italian side, another such road, pyloned and covered (for protection against snow and landslides) moves 6.4 miles in graceful hairpin turns down to St. Rhémy. Motorists have the impression of driving along an enormous veranda with breath-taking views of the Aosta valley, 1,000 ft. below...
...research to marketing Libby's 300 products (best seller: tomato juice). He feels that the best place for Libby to regain its youth is in Western Europe, where rising living standards provide a growing market for canned goods. Libby will add a $5,000,000 cannery in the Rhône Valley this year to already operating processing plants in West Germany and England (three major European firms now hold 40% of Libby's stock). Gibson travels a lot, but still taste-tests his products and approves the label for each canned product...
...research for New Jersey's Becton, Dickinson & Co., manufacturers of medical supplies, who in 60 inventive years developed the elasticized Ace bandage, used the world over for sprains and varicose veins, the disposable morphine syringe carried in first aid kits, hypodermic needles that enable doctors to transfuse RH-factor babies through the umbilical vein: following a stroke; in Hackensack...