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...Most thorough work so far has been done with radio-phosphorus. Hevesy and others have found that phosphorus turnover (metabolism) is slowest in the brain, somewhat faster in muscles and other organs, fastest in bones (which use 75% of the body's phosphorus). Since 1938 doctors have been using radio-phosphorus instead of radium or X-ray exposure in the treatment of leukemia, a mysterious cancerlike disease of the blood and blood-forming tissue such as bone marrow. This is the first therapeutic application resulting from tracer studies with radioelements...
...that all. Voyages are slower, owing to the fact that convoys must assume the speed of their slowest members and must steer in zigzag courses. On the average, voyages take twice as long as they did before the war. So these 13,000,000 tons of shipping carry roughly only as much goods as 6,500,000 tons could carry in peacetime...
...event the U.S. Fleet-now the world's slowest, heaviest, most powerful-will within a few years be the world's fastest, heaviest, most powerful. But Navy men last week thought that they would have to fight their next war with their slow Fleet. History was faster than...
...British convoys move slowly, only as fast as their slowest ship. Submarines go about eight to ten knots submerged, 16 to 18 on the surface. The Norwegians argue that the British should mount antisubmarine guns and anti-aircraft guns on fast Norwegian ships, let them travel independently as some fast British vessels do now. They could then outrun submerged submarines, outshoot surface ones, and take their chances against air attack. > The British make each ship wait its turn to unload in British ports, regardless of cargo value and ship's speed. The Norwegians want port priorities for fast ships...
...Retail Consumption, chain store and mail order sales were 12.4% ahead of January 1939, but the slowest months of the year were at hand. Even curtailed production (in autos and textiles for example) will probably run ahead of sales for the first quarter, when manufacturers almost always overproduce against increased spring sales. This year, normal seasonal overproduction may neutralize the recession's job of cleaning out surplus inventories. If so, the slump in production would be prolonged into the second quarter...