Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which a sugarlike substance is combined with a protein. Almost the only thing known about them is that their composition changes when tissues are damaged. Price took a standard (but highly complex) fractionator. Into it he put 4 cc. (one teaspoon) of serum from the blood of his test subjects. After the machine had dropped the various fractions into an array of test tubes, he put the tubes under the spectrophotometer for analysis...
...different pattern. From tuberculosis victims it was different again, and so on down a long list of physical and mental illnesses, including cancer and various heart diseases. Though hopeful, Dr. Price and colleagues were cautious. It will probably take five years to decide whether the telltale test tubes are truthful, and whether they tell the same story to different physicians reading the results...
Today Wall Street is looking to a brighter future. Experts expect that trading will be slow for the rest of the year, that stocks will seesaw in a narrow range. The big test of whether the market has seen its low will come in the next six weeks, when companies release their first-quarter earnings. Railroads, copper and other metals, already hard hit in 1957, are not likely to improve. Nevertheless, Wall Street feels that the basis is being laid for a rise in late 1958 and 1959. One clue is the widening spread between stock dividends and bond yields...
MARTIN'S TITAN ICBM will be test-flown this year. Air Force has successfully completed ground tests of 5,500-mile missile's components and inertial guidance system, which uses gyroscope rather than radio control...
...MILLION CONTRACT will go to General Electric Co. to design, build and test world's biggest known radar system. It will be first part of Air Force's $721 million missile early-warning system (TIME, Feb. 3) to detect ICBMs in flight several thousand miles away. Work starts soon in G.E.'s Syracuse plant, will buoy company's defense employment...