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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...linked together in chains. What they do not know is how the chains are put together. The plan is to find out how the silkworms do it. Professor Williams is injecting mature worms with various amino acids which are made radioactive by carbon 14. After a while the worms start spinning their cocoons. If their silk turns out radioactive, it may prove that the particular amino acids injected by Professor Williams were used to form its protein...
Money in the Bank. What businessmen wanted to see most was some sign that the U.S. consumer was ready to start buying again as vigorously as he had done a year ago. By all the statistics, the consumer could well afford to take the rubber band off his roll. But he was still cautious. Last week from Indianapolis, TIME Correspondent Ed Heinke told...
Much more research and many more carefully stained slides will be needed before doctors find a clue to the cure of eclampsia. But a clue to the cause is a big start. Eclampsia is such a mysterious ailment that it has baffled doctors for 4,000 years and has been nicknamed the "disease of theories...
Nevertheless, the Senate Executive Expenditures Committee and two other Congressional groups trumpeted that they would start investigating the five-percenters. That was a big job, since anyone who had kicked in for campaign funds, poured drinks for the right people or done the countless other things that made for influence in Washington, was equipped to be a five-percenter. But if the investigation should eliminate just a few of the five-percenters, and teach Government officials to steer clear of the influence boys, it would do a service not only to taxpayers but also to businessmen...
...Civil Aeronautics Board, which has often cautioned "irregular" airlines against becoming too regular, last week got tough. It ordered California's Standard Air Lines, one of the biggest irregulars, to stop flying by July 20. It also asked the Department of Justice to start criminal proceedings against Standard for willful violation of the Civil Aeronautics Act,*the first such action in CAB history...