Word: tracers
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...Smart, of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, digressed from denouncing beer to complain that she had seen some mighty low-cut necklines ("They dropped almost off the shoulder") and to disapprove of Groucho Marx's pretending to misunderstand a lady who said she was a skip-tracer.* Quipped Groucho: "You're a stripteaser? That's fine. I'm tired of this namby-pamby stuff...
...Montreal's Charles E. Frosst & Co. to do the tricky manufacturing job of building cortisone with an atom of radioactive carbon-14 in Ring A of the molecule. As many as a hundred research outfits may get the stuff; one gram will be enough for 100,000 tracer doses. ¶ The shortage of nurses would not be half so bad if hospitals would stop using nurses for orderly jobs, said Marian J. Wright of Detroit's Harper Hospital. A survey showed that 27% of the hospitals studied use nurses to make empty beds, and 18% make them...
STUDY OF BODY FUNCTION: with "tracer" doses of dozens of radioactive elements, medical researchers are beginning to learn things they never knew before about how the body, sick. or well, performs some of its incredibly complex chemical processes. Biochemists will be busy for many years in this field. Eventually their knowledge should lead to better ways of treating a host of diseases, and probably to new ways of curing some...
Many stockholders, said Cook, do not know that old stock in reorganized companies must be turned in. Since the unorganized companies have often been in long receivership, their address lists of stockholders are usually out of date. To find the stockholders, SEC has prodded companies into hiring tracer agencies...
...such students, the institute offers equipment no other campus could afford. It has use of the largest of the national atomic energy laboratories, the biggest gaseous diffusion plant (for the separation of uranium isotopes), and is in the world center of the production and study of tracer atoms. Its museum, complete with artificial lightning and Geiger counters, is host to hundreds of students a year. Its special exhibits travel by truck to schools and fairs from Florida to Oregon...