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Poking through a few old corners of the federal household, General Service Administrator Jess Larson had come across signs of bureaucratic hoarding that would put the squirrels to shame. Samples: one U.S. bureau had a 247-year reserve of looseleaf binders (but only 168 years' worth of filler paper...
Last week in Moscow, Communist Mother Russia trod briskly down the trail blazed by Herr Goebbels. The Soviet Academy of Sciences decided to thoroughly Russianize the Russian language, which is liberally endowed with words borrowed from French, German and English (samples: khuligan-hooligan, trolleibus-trolley bus, stend-stand. "In most...
Dr. Sidney Rothbard put the technique to wide practical use at Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx. Last week he reported at a meeting of the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association that on 1,200 serum samples from 950 patients the test was 92.3% accurate. "This test," said he, "gives...
The non-Jewish teachers were impressed by the solemnity of the ceremonies and were pleased when Rabbi Brickner held a question & answer period. Samples: "Do the Jews believe in a Messiah?"
After testing scores of thousands of soil samples from all over the world, researchers for Charles Pfizer & Co. Inc. announced last week that they had isolated a new and promising antibiotic from a piece of Indiana dirt. The drug, named terramycin (earth mold) by its Brooklyn discoverers, is secreted by...