Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...severed head as it travels down the conveyer chain. With deft fingers she gets hold of the pituitary gland. Then, with a pair of tweezers, she removes the front half of the gland and drops it into a container of Dry Ice. That is the first step in the production of ACTH, the new wonder drug which may ultimately save millions from the ravages of arthritis, gout, rheumatic fever and kindred ills (TIME...
...whole thing had reached its climax, he thought, in the new Cowles-published Quick-"a news digest of news digests." Wrote he: "One can easily imagine a digest of Quick (Quicker) and finally one of Quicker (Quickest). From Quickest to the nonreading of the news seems a logical next step...
...ease credit further. It cut bank reserve requirements again, thus freeing $1.8 billion more for lending. This was FRB's fifth step in as many months to combat deflation...
...these changes were made, McCabe thought that business could step up expansion. Said he: "I am a confirmed optimist regarding the future of America. I firmly believe that the basic characteristics of our economy are expansion and growth. Economic expansion today presents a strikingly different challenge from that of a hundred years ago. Then, the frontier development was the opening up of our great Western resources. The geographic frontier is gone, but we still have a frontier of development. That frontier is technology...
...work on a movie and went into a huddle with the doctor, but the three emerged with a statement that left the triangle standing (TIME, May 16). Last week, goaded by day-to-day newspaper reports about her affair with balding, 43-year-old Director Rossellini, Ingrid chose to step down off the pedestal under her own power...