Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week the Council of the Caroline Institute at the University of Stockholm awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology jointly to Drs. Hess and Moniz. His half of the $30,000 would come in handy to Dr. Hess. Said he: "It will simplify my work. I have certain plans and everything costs money . . . Now I will be able to hire assistants...
...microbiologists. He has won for his university not only fame but fortune. Streptomycin for a 60-day course of treatment costs $60 to $80. A dozen chemical companies are turning out the new wonder drug, and for every gram (1/28 of an ounce) sold, Rutgers gets 2?. By last week, the university's harvest of pennies had reached more than...
After lending Henry Kaiser $34.4 million only a month ago, the RFC last week opened its cash drawer and plunked out another $10 million to its great & good friend. The earlier loan was to help Kaiser-Frazer bring out a low-priced car by next spring to compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth. The second loan was to permit K-F to finance its dealers' purchases of cars from the factory, because K-F dealers had trouble getting loans from private banks. All told, RFC has loaned K-F almost as much as the company raised in stock sales...
...influenced, explained Harley Hise, by the dire alternatives for K-F if the money had been refused. Said he: K-F might have had to shut down, resulting in heavy unemployment. As it was, K-F last week had to lay off 5,000 workers anyway, while it tried to sell cars on hand. But Hise hoped that that was just a temporary situation and that "the loans will be repaid from earnings...
Like a man walking on the ceiling, the stock market last week continued to delight and mystify onlookers. In nose-thumbing defiance of all the gloom over strikes (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the market blithely kept on rising, for the fourth week in a row. With a 4.1 point gain during the week, the Dow-Jones industrial average broke through the high mark (190.19) of a year ago, when Wall Street confidently expected a Republican victory, and reached...