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...cadre of engineers, scientists, economists and retired generals that advised Lockheed to buy Grand Central Rocket Co. and sent it into research that paid off recently in a Government contract. On the suggestion of Planning Chief O. G. Kennedy, Miles Laboratories tripled the capacity of its citric acid plant, merged three chemical divisions into one and opened two plants in Europe. Kennedy received one of the planner's ultimate rewards: he has been made president of the Miles products division. Though the field is new, several other planners have already reached the top, including Westinghouse President Mark Cresap...
...have caused more ulcers than were ever cured, and killed too many patients. The first great advance in ulcer treatment, says Dr. Moore, came in 1943, when Chicago's Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt reported that cutting the vagus nerves (vagotomy) would keep the stomach from producing the excess acid that eats a hole in the wall of the duodenum. Dr. Moore's prescription for a duodenal ulcer severe enough to require surgery: Cut both vagus nerves, but cut out no part of the stomach -only enlarge its outlet...
...Minnesota's Wangensteen came the idea that chilling the stomach, by running a coolant solution through a swallowed balloon, might stop bleeding from ulcers in the stomach itself. It did. Then with his surgeon son Stephen, Dr. Wangensteen reasoned that actually freezing the stomach wall might cripple the acid-producing cells and thus keep acid from spilling into the duodenum. It does, at least for several months. After that, says Dr. Wangensteen, the procedure can be repeated-though in any but expert hands, it may be dangerous...
...utside source and converting it into chemical energy for storage. When called upon, they gradually convert the chemical energy back into a steady current of electricity, which lasts long enough to run the portable typewriter up to ten hours before recharging is needed. Auto batteries use lead and acid as the elements to produce their chemical action; nickel-cadmiums use nickel and cadmium electrodes. European engineers after the war developed a way to make them compact in size and to seal them permanently so that no new battery fluid has to be added during their life. Today's vastly...
During last year's gubernatorial campaign in California, for example, Richard Nixon frequently pledged that, if elected, he would prohibit the appearance of any "subversive speaker" on state campuses. Kerr's acid reaction was to comment that "we will certainly consider Mr. Nixon's requests...but we will do exactly as we please...