Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dragon's Break. Entering the chamber during a debate on denationalization of truck transport, Churchill heard Acting Opposition Leader Herbert Morrison saying: "There is no hurry about this bill; in fact, it would be a good thing if it were never passed at all." Churchill rose to the fray. Standing with his feet apart, dimpled hands on the dispatch box, his face flushed a winy pink, he said: "The Right Hon. Gentleman is a master of the art of trying to have it all ways at once." His next words were almost lost in the din of angry voices...
...invading cancer cells. Serum containing these antibodies was taken from the rabbits and combined with radioactive iodine, then injected into the cancerous mice. When the cancers were later removed from these mice, the doctors found that the radioactive antibodies had concentrated in the malignant tissue. The hope: to transport destructive amounts of radioactivity to human cancer tissue selectively, and without damage to normal tissue. ¶ There is no known cure for leukemia, the blood-corpuscle cancer to which children seem particularly prone, but medicine has developed several methods of controlling it for limited periods. Five doctors from Memorial Center reported...
...commanders were not prepared for quick emergency movement of their equipment and command posts. No corps or division command post had been moved for tactical reasons in nearly two years. Sluggishness could be seen in the movement of field pieces up to the front and in the handling of transport on the muddy roads...
Wide Plans. With Convair, Hopkins' immediate prospects are not quite so rosy. The loss of the B60 contract was a grave shock to ex-Boss Odlum. But Convair still has a backlog of more than $1 billion in orders for its military planes and its pressurized Convair 340 transport. Last year it netted $10,400,000, close to its World War II peak ($12,300,000). With Convair in the fold, Hopkins hopes to make General Dynamics both general, dynamic, and radioactive...
Only a few hours after the Air Force offered to donate the helicopter which will transport Magda Gabor, ace Hungarian beauty, to Cambridge Saturday afternoon, City Manager John Curry yesterday refused blood drive officials permission to land the copter in the Cambridge Common...