Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Of all mankind's enemies, the tiniest and most elusive may also be the toughest : viruses. Despite recent breakthroughs, such as development of vaccines against polio, viruses still cause an immense amount of disease. There are no cures or even effective treatments for illnesses brought on by the smaller...
From the outstandingly competitive men and their opposites, the researchers picked a dozen of each, persuaded them to keep samples of their urine all day on the job, and a nighttime specimen for comparison. Analysis showed what happened to the excretion (and therefore, presumably, to the body's output...
As the steel strike's effects continued to mount last week, one thing was certain: except in the steel industry itself, the strike had little effect on third-quarter earnings. Automakers, tobacco, chemical, oil and electronics producers all reported new highs. For most, third-quarter earnings were running about...
At Miami Beach there were opinions to fit every account. Said Louis E. Corrington Jr., president of Chicago's Southmoor Bank & Trust Co.: "Right now, money is the tightest I have ever seen it. It will be worse after the steel strike is over and companies start building inventories...
The man whose views were most eagerly sought is a tall (6 ft. i in.), slim (160 Ibs.), handsome New Yorker named Henry Clay Alexander. At 57, Alexander is chairman of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and perhaps the nation's most prestigious banker. He is heir...