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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washbura, only three-time president of the HMC, has twice conquered Mt. McKinley. His second trip, shown in the films, was a science-backed expedition to test conditions at high altitude. Supplies hauled by dogs and dropped by airplane greatly eased his journey...
Long Way from Locke. A few weeks before Churchill's blast, Britain's new socialized medicine scheme had survived its first major test in the House of Commons. Its champion, Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, held arrogant and undisputed possession of the field when Churchill walked out of the House (TIME, Feb. 28). This did not prove that Britain's socialized medicine plan was good medicine or good social organization. But the debate's results did prove that socialized medicine was what the British voters wanted...
...with only one injection (45? worth of penicillin), it would be big medical news indeed. It was reported last week that such good news is not an impossible hope. Dr. R. C. Arnold of the U.S. Public Health Services' Venereal Disease Control Research Laboratory announced that in 85 test cases, a single injection of 300,000 units (one cubic centimeter) of penicillin made syphilis noninfectious within 72 hours, and has kept it that way for most patients during the six to eight months the experiment has been running...
Help from a Frog. The doctors were deeply interested in a simple test for pregnancy, presented by the White Cross Hospital of Columbus, Ohio and Denison University of Granville, Ohio. It involved no new scientific principles, but was an improved application of old ones. Tests using rabbits are slow, may take two days; frogs or toads imported from South America or South Africa are expensive ($4 to $10 apiece). Urine from a pregnant woman injected into a common male leopard frog (Rana pipiens) causes emission of spermatozoa. The test has also proved valuable for finding out whether, in doubtful cases...
Meat. The Tax Court of the U.S. ruled that merchants who paid black market prices for merchandise during OPA days can deduct such illegal payments as a cost of doing business. For Houston's black-marketeering Select Meat Co., in the test case, the ruling meant a $60,000 tax saving...