Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Urine for Ulcers. Women rarely have peptic ulcers. On a hunch that female hormones confer natural immunity, Dr. David Jacob Sandweiss, Physiologist M. H. F. Friedman and colleagues of Detroit's Wayne University made a purified extract of the urine of normal, healthy women, injected it under the skin of dogs in whom they had produced peptic ulcers. In several weeks the dogs recovered. Within the last two years the scientists have tried experimental urine injections on 60 patients, with "highly encouraging results." What the healing substance is, and where it is produced, the doctors haven...
...cans of kerosene, soon got a job with John D. Rockefeller's up-&-coming Standard Oil Co. When he quit to go into business himself in 1910, he was rich enough to buy a one-horse tank wagon, and sell gasoline from the rear end while his son Jacob drove...
...months after he had filed one of the most potent lawsuits ever brought in New York County's Supreme Court. Main defendants: Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); great Standard Oil Co. (N. J.); its operating subsidiary, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Last week stocky, easygoing Son Jacob was head of the Blaustein family and administrator of its Baltimore charities when Justice Samuel Irving Rosenman (onetime Governor's Counsel to F. D. R.) handed down a decision in the case...
...interest in Pan Am, and Louis Blaustein became its president. Standard of Indiana, in control with 70%, promised to see to it that Pan Am got new production and refining facilities of its own. But in 1937, Louis Blaustein resigned from Pan Am's presidency, Jacob gave up the chair of executive vice president; they sued as minority stockholders...
...Manhattan, however, Albert Greenfield was still regarded as a first-rate real-estate man. Last week Loft Candy Corp., in which a Greenfield-headed syndicate has acquired 32% of the stock, elected him chairman of the board. With his associate, Candy-Man Jacob Beresin, as president, Real-Estate Man Greenfield was expected to solve the real-estate problem under the Loft chain of 161 candy stores, put the company (now divorced from Pepsi-Cola-rich Loft, Inc.) back on its feet. Sighed Greenfield softly, "I would have preferred to serve Loft's in some capacity not involving a title...