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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industrial economy that in ten years has brought in 500 new industries, created 80,000 jobs, boosted per capita income from $264 to $369. Puerto Rico's Economic Development Administrator Teodoro Moscoso emphasized that the "key" to his country's swift rise was the original decision to use government funds only to create an environment in which private industry could flourish. Said he: "What is transforming Puerto Rico is not the money but the dynamic productive forces of the U.S. industrial concerns which made the investment decisions and are operating the new factories. Comparable amounts made as loans...
...myself," said Capitalist Masani, "hold the view that the country that gives a grant or loan has a right to attach conditions which in its opinion make for honest, efficient and productive use of the assistance. On the other hand, there should be nothing done that appears to question the right of a country democratically to determine the structure of its own industry or economy. Any suggestion that an attempt is made to export a country's economic philosophy is one that needs to be scrupulously eschewed...
Actually, besides germs in water and food, doctors indict other villains, including the oil used in cooking, hot seasonings, even climate, altitude and just plain overeating. Mexicans, among whom dysentery is endemic, use such home-grown remedies as guava juice and seeds, guava-leaf tea, cactus pear seeds. Medically more accepted remedies: bismuth and paregoric, or in well-diagnosed cases under a doctor's care, the newer antibiotics. Currently popular is a new nonprescription tablet made by Ciba Pharmaceuticals called Entero-Vioform (an antiseptic containing iodine). A lot of these treatments, Mexicans hope, may become unnecessary as a result...
...Patricia J. Edgerton report that skin grafts from one strain of mice to another normally died within nine days, but could be made to live as long as 38 days if they were retransplanted several times at four-day intervals. This suggested that an organ donated for spare-part use might be conditioned so that it would no longer stimulate the recipient's system to produce antibodies. And a team at the University of Minnesota reported on work with rats and rabbits suggesting that the recipient might be conditioned not to reject transplanted tissues from another individual, or even...
Twenty-seven years later the still quite proper Royal Academy had no objection at all to The Sphinx. What did Sir Gerald think of her now? Said he: "Oh, what a whopping big picture. It's too large. Terribly difficult to use...