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...manufacture it themselves. Working with lab animals, they came to suspect that it might be a control factor in such diseases as hardening of the arteries and even cancer. But nobody found much use for it except as an antidote for radiation sickness, e.g., following an overdose of X rays...
...will be available for use in a variety of ways. The prospects are that fertility-control methods to fit every need and every purse will become available. Indeed, it seems likely that sex and reproduction will in reality become effectively separated." ¶Because normal liver tissue seemed sensitive to X rays, doctors hesitated to treat liver cancer with radiation, and such cases were considered hopeless. At Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases, 36 patients dying of cancers that had spread to their livers were given massive doses of X ray. Doctors found that the subsequent laboratory...
...dogs were taken to Massachusetts Institute of Technology and given doses of X rays calculated to kill one-third of them eventually. Then some of them returned to their former schedules of exercise or box-opening. The others were kept idle as controls...
...Almy, Dedham, Mass.; Edward P. Bliss, Sherborn, Mass.; John R. Bray, Orchard Park, N. Y.; George W. Chase, Canton, Mass.; Richard J. Clasby, Natick, Mass.; Walter S. Cooledge 3d, Arlington, Mass.; Thomas J. Coolidge Jr., Brookline, Mass.; Walter F. Greeley, Framingham, Mass.; Edward A. Hubbard, South Natick, Mass.; Francis X. Mahoney, Boston, Mass.; Douglas C. Manchester, Newton, Mass.; Edward J. Mrkonich, Eveleth, Minn.; James B. O'Brien, Cambridge, Mass.; Edwin B. Richardson, New York City; Reginald N. Wood, Marblehead, Mass.; Maynard W. Powning, Wayland, Mass...
Problematic Plan. Not all airplane designers believe that the X-3 has a chance of reaching the speed for which it was designed. It is underpowered, they say, and, without complete redesign, it cannot use the bigger engines that are coming along. Bill is noncommittal. Neither liking nor trusting his little beast, he still intends to fly it with high professional competence, however tricky its character. The plan for Bill Bridgeman and the X-3 is many more flights, perhaps 40 of them, gradually increasing the speed to the maximum. Some of the flights are sure to be unpleasant...