Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important of Sloan-Kettering's laboratories is the great hospital next door, including the Strang Prevention Clinic. Dr. Rulon W. Rawson, head of the Division of Clinical Investigation, explains that, after all, human patients are the best source of information about human cancer. Clinical investigation is a two-way street. Observation of patients, especially their reaction to treatment, gives clues for researchers to follow. When the laboratories develop some new method applicable to human beings, the hospital is the only conclusive place...
...same way, many a company which had been trying to discover the bottom on its "back-to-normal" slide seemed to have found it-and to be starting the upward climb again. In industrial alcohol, a basic raw material for many manufacturers, the surplus had caused prices to toboggan from 87? a gallon to 21?, but by last week the turn seemed to have come. Pub-licker Industries, Inc., a big U.S. maker of industrial alcohol, thought demand had picked up enough so it could raise prices 8½? to 11? a gallon. Even in textiles, softest of the soft...
...along its way back to a normal route had the U.S. traveled? Harvard Marketing Professor Malcolm P. McNair squinted at the scenery and announced that one-third to one-half the trip had been completed. He guessed the index of industrial production, now around 175, would drop to about 155 before starting up again. The rest of the ride should not be "too severe," said McNair, certainly "less severe" than...
...Mexican border, the slender, 119-mile-long finger of Padre Island guards the Texas gulf coast from the Gulf of Mexico, forms the shallow waters of Laguna Madre. Within this calm lagoon one day last week, two huge Government dredges, the Caribbean and the Miami, chewed their way towards each other through mud, sand, shell and stone. About eight months ago, the Caribbean had started north from Brownsville, the Miami south from Corpus Christi. Last week the big cutting blades of the dredges slashed through the last barriers between them-completing the last link in the $80 million Gulf Intracoastal...
...cotton growers, oilmen and cattlemen of the Lower Rio Grande, it was as historic a moment as the coming of the railroads. Through the waterway, freight barges could be towed all the way from Brownsville, Tex. to Florida-1,116 miles -without exposure to the open sea. Cried one Texan: "A shining strand linking together those jewels of progress into a fabulous necklace along the curving bosom of the Gulf...