Word: transmit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical Service Graduate School has recently had a team in Madagascar studying plague, while another worked on scrub typhus in North Borneo. Now the big push on scrub typhus is in Japan (where it becomes tsutsugamushi disease): medics from Walter Reed are at Zama studying the chiggers that transmit the disease, while Japanese artists draw them...
...will get a dress rehearsal in Washington. To demonstrate its Phonevision system of toll TV to FCC, Congressmen and a broadcasters' convention this week, Zenith Radio Corp. has teamed up with WMAL-TV to transmit live programs and special movies during the morning hours to some 50 Zenith receivers set up in the capital...
...disease except cancer has been so widely feared in the last three decades. With polio's dramatic defeat, as the Detroit Free Press wrote, "The prayers and hopes of millions ... in all parts of the world were answered." Medals & Movies. President Dwight Eisenhower ordered the State Department to transmit information on the Salk vaccine and its effectiveness to 75 nations through U.S. Ambassadors, and the World Health Organization planned to duplicate this effort. The U.S. Department of Commerce put an immediate embargo on future shipments of the vaccine, and experts thought that the U.S. would have little to spare...
...Washington. Reston had already phoned Times Managing Editor Turner Catledge to alert him that he might be getting the report, and the Times had decided to publish it, since "no question of national security" was involved. With the two volumes in hand, Reston set his Washington bureau to work transmitting the record to New York. Said he: "It was like being given two phone books to transmit...
...addition, says William G. Perry, Jr., '35, Director of the Bureau, "Our seminars with interested faculty members and advisors transmit the kind of educational problem we meet to those people on the teaching end of the learning process...