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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This way the Department grinds out 15,000 rats a year. And they use every one of them. They also use 100 guines pigs, 50 rabbits, 25 chickens and ducks, and--two dozen monkeys...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Biologists Regulate Rats in Research Lab | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

...this reason, Stuffy said last night that he probably would use top hurler Ira Godin in the New Haven game. "I'm not sure yet--and won't be until tomorrow; but I think we'll use Barry Turner against Tufts and here again on Class Day, and pitch Ira on Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McInnis' Nine Prepares for Elis and Tufts | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

...stemmed from the fear that the public, expecting color TV in the near future, might stop buying black & white sets. According to Du-Mont's Dr. Allen B. DuMont, the present color converters are expensive, and so complicated that, if color telecasts began tomorrow, every set now in use would have to go to a factory for proper installation. All in all, the industry wished the subject had not come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Color Blind | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Doctors have known for 15 years that irradiating the blood with invisible ultraviolet rays helps in some diseases, notably blood poisoning. Three years ago Drs. Valinta P. Wasson, George P. Miley and Preston M. Dunning of the New York Infirmary decided to use the technique on children with acute rheumatic heart disease. Last week they reported success in 22 consecutive cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: UBI | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...engines that go into Moore's cars are the same (Offenhausers made by the Meyer & Drake Engineering Corp.) that are used in most other racing cars. But Master Mechanic Moore does not use them the way they come from the factory. He pulls down each engine to the last nut & bolt, polishes intake and exhaust valves, magnafluxes each part to see if any hidden defects exist. He buys the chassis, too, adding his own refinements in design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Motor Monopoly | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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