Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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While the general scanned the Red positions with his field glasses, two enemy soldiers came over a small rise and took cover behind some bushes, Gay jumped up, hailed U.S. half-track and zeroed its .50 caliber machine guns in on the squatting Communists. When the gunners stopped firing, skinny General Gay came back to his rock pile. "They sure did take off that hill," he said happily...
...mean that Dr. Dyer was giving up medicine. Soon he went to work for the U.S. Public Health Service. Last week, nearing 64 and retirement, ruddy, white-pompa-doured Rolla Dyer looked back on a career which mirrored the growth of PHS from a sort of emergency field service to a vast organization with elaborate research facilities in its National Institutes of Health. And the lushest, most fruitful growth of the Institutes (to a $50-million-a-year enterprise) had been in the last eight years under Dr. Dyer's directorship...
Talk with Angels. In his early, field-service days, Dr. Dyer fought bubonic plague in Louisiana and Texas, pellagra in South Carolina, and World War I's influenza in Massachusetts. He standardized scarlet fever toxin and antitoxin, which took much of the panic out of a once-dreaded disease. Dr. Dyer doubts that his preparations are ever used nowadays, for antibiotics have almost finished the job he started...
...Dyer says of his 34 years with the PHS: "I've seen the whole field of public health change enormously in that time. The accent of our research ... has changed from the control of infectious diseases to include chronic diseases." The problem now is not so much the diseases that kill people young, as what to do with people who live to grow old. For that, NIH has a clinical center abuilding...
...railroad-equipment field, Automan Budd cannily foresaw the end of the postwar rush for long-haul passenger cars, developed the Railway Diesel Car for economical passenger service for shorter runs. Thus, when the railway car market virtually vanished this year, Budd's foresight paid off: out of 18 passenger car orders placed with U.S. car builders this year, 16 are for Budd's new "RDCs...