Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the fact we live in the town where it happened, it took TIME to tell us that blows were actually struck-instead of the whitewashed propaganda handed out by the college to the effect it was just a schoolboy fracas over a sweater...
...cold, air-conditioned room in Sloan-Kettering, various molds (green or white mats) are growing in flasks. The program is still young, but already one mold has been found that secretes a substance with a slight differential effect on mouse tumors. Dr. Rhoads does not even want to talk about it yet. He has no "cancer penicillin...
...door marked "No Visitors" (no one may enter who has not been properly immunized), works attractive Dr. Alice Moore, a leading virus fancier. "I'm a virus girl," she says, "so I thought I'd ry 'em." She tried influenza virus on can-:erous mice. No effect. She tried the virus of herpes (inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes). No effect...
...days the firm, round tumors turned into blobs of pus. All the cancer cells apparently died. But the virus then went on and attacked the nerves and brain. Four days later the mice, apparently cured of cancer, died of encephalitis. Nonetheless, the virus had shown a dramatic differential effect. It went first to the tumor and thrived there before attacking the brain...
...which gives U.S. farmers an annual export market of 168 million bushels for four years. The wheat pact, which will cost taxpayers an estimated $84 million in subsidies to farmers for the first year's exports (because export prices will be lower than domestic support prices), goes into effect July...