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...clue to Goodpasture's revolutionary discovery came from research on a common barnyard disease, fowlpox, which farmers know as "sore head." With an associate, Dr. Alice Miles Woodruff, he hit on the idea of cultivating fowlpox virus in a fertile egg. It was cheaper than the rats, guinea pigs and monkeys which scientists had used previously; it was a sterile medium enclosed in a naturally sterile container. After purchasing an incubator from a mail-order house and a few dozen fertile eggs from a Nashville hatchery, Dr. Goodpasture set to work...
...were fought over by sea-hungry landlubbers. Butlin's popular seaside camps, the workingman's country clubs, had more customers than they could handle. While most people wanted to get out of the city, some provincials wanted to get into it: Thomas Cook & Son offered an eight-guinea ($34) junket to London, complete with guided tour of the bombed areas...
Impatient at brides who flirt with fortune by arriving at his church as much as twenty minutes late, the Rev. Brian Purefoy last week upped his organist's fees from two to four guineas. Prompt brides will get a two guinea refund...
...guinea pig was a volunteer-Fred Learned, onetime farm editor, now an employe of the American Cancer Society. Two days before the big banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria he had taken a dose of radioactive iodine; now handsome, scholarly Dr. Robley D. Evans, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would demonstrate how the substance, a product of atomic research, could combat cancer of the thyroid...
With volunteer conscious objectors acting as guinea pigs, the electro-acoustic researchers developed a fiberglass sound-proofing for aircraft that climinated the nerve-shattering vibrations of flight...