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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warburg Professor of Economics Gottfried Haberler, who handles Harvard's graduate course in International Trade, calls the pound devaluation a "courageous" move and thinks it has a good chance of completely wiping out Britain's dollar deficit by 1952, providing low British incomes don't force general wage rises...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Faculty Experts Applaud Devaluation | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...sits a 66-room red brick Georgian mansion, one of the largest and most lavish houses in New York City. Across the street, the late Banker Otto Kahn's Florentine stone palace is now the Sacred Heart Convent for girls; a block up Fifth Avenue stands Banker Felix Warburg's six-story home: it is now the Jewish Museum. Farther down Fifth Avenue, workmen this week started tearing down Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan's ornate 30-room mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big House on Fifth Avenue | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...cancer fighters gained another inch or so in their Sisyphean progress? Much work remained to be done before anyone could be sure. Said Warburg, after discussing the action of the anti-enzyme: "It must now be found out by experiment whether such an anti-enzyme will inhibit the growth of tumors in the human body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Continuing War | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Nobel Prizewinner (1931), Warburg is a biochemist about whom anecdotes crystallize. In the '305 the Nazis had winked at the fact that he was "non-Aryan," allowed him to keep on working in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Warburg's field was cancer research, and Hitler had a personal dread of the disease. Warburg could also manage the occupation authorities. When Berlin was first occupied, he lost his riding horses twice, once to the Russians and once to the Americans; he got them back each time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Continuing War | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Since cancer cells ferment as they grow, Warburg had suggested finding a substance that would stop the fermentation. Now, he announced that he had found an "anti-zymohexase," and that enough zymohexase can be drawn from the body to make large quantities of the anti-enzyme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Continuing War | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

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