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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legislature to determine that the MTA lines and the subways were "highways" and, as such, were to be maintained by the receipts from gasoline and other automotive taxes. The car owners objected to this plan; they argued that persons who paid a gas tax were the least likely to use the MTA. And this program was disregarded entirely early this year, when the State Supreme Court ruled such action illegal...
There is no use in further singling out the failures of certain other committees because their leaders will not be around next year. But the new men who have just been elected to the Council should dig into Committee work where they can make significant contributions to the College and, incidentally, gain valuable administrative experience...
...Hertz has long hoped that the government will set up a centralized agency to handle the distribution of radioactive isotopes for use by private enterprises working on approved projects. Now that isotopes are about to be released in greater quantity than ever before, the matter is assuming immediate importance. For although more isotopes are available than previously, the quantity at hand is limited and an efficient organization in the field is necessary...
...Institute, financed by the establishment of a memorial to the Aaron Daniel and Bertha Hertz family of Cleveland, Ohio, will be the first privately endowed organization to receive regularly a clinical supply of radioactive iodine and radioactive phosphorous, by-products of the uranium piles which produce plutonium for use in atomic bombs. This method of production is relatively cheap, since the only alternative means is cyclotron bombardment which produces such small quantities as to be impractical for the desired scale of operation...
...effects from this treatment have been noted. When radio-therapy was first used an the correct doseage was not accurately known, a few cases of "radiation sickness" were noted, but this had been encountered before the use of radium treatments and hence was not overly alarming...