Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grimson wants to test banthine in detail for another six months. Then, if it still looks good, he will ask the Food & Drug Administration to release it for general use...
...biggest gripes of U.S. railroaders is that their barge-line competitors use the federal-maintained inland waterways, and that trucks and buses use highways also built with tax dollars. "We don't want subsidies," said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads last week, "but if the Government persists in subsidizing our competitors, we may have to accept them." If that threatened socialization, he added: "You could also have socialization by simply running out of money...
...Stafford Cripps, who thought the British government had devalued the pound to rock bottom, brushed off the cheap pounds as insignificant. But exporters estimated that $60 million a year are being lost by Britain by use of the cheap pounds to pay for British exports. Britain had hoped to plug such leaks when she devalued in the first place...
Eying the dollar loss, some exchange experts thought that the pound might be in for more trouble, unless Britain removed her strict controls on its use. Warned the Wall Street Journal: "The pound is still a hobbled currency . . . The man who holds a pound sterling, with its limited usefulness, still wants to swap it for U.S. dollars or other money that is spendable anywhere any time . . . Under such circumstances, there is no 'rockbottom' price [for the pound...
...inference was so obvious that Dr. Diamond and his colleagues have not dared to use a man's blood since. Of 45 later cases given the blood of female donors, only one was lost, and that child was almost dead at birth. Other children's hospitals have switched to female donors for this type of exchange transfusion and are building up higher columns of hopeful figures. Dr. Diamond, though he still has no idea what the protective substance in a woman's blood may be, is looking for ways to use it in other children...