Atomic Rays Fight Cancer in Wide Range of Applications
The piece reviews atomic energy use since its 1952 dawn, including a Brookhaven patient treated with a nuclear chamber, a Wisconsin farmer benefiting from isotope-guided fertilizer, and a Boston patient given radioactive iodine. It highlights researchers’ cautious optimism about medical, agricultural, and industrial benefits and notes tracer isotopes aid studies from cancer to photosynthesis.
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Washington
Brookhaven
N.Y
Wisconsin
Boston
Hiroshima
Gordon Dean
Atomic Energy Commission
Benjamin Franklin
Cumberland Mountains
Tennessee
Eisenhower Taft Meet GOP Leaders At New York Luncheon
President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower and Senator Robert A Taft attended a luncheon with GOP Senate leaders and Eisenhower staff at his New York headquarters. From left are Leverett Saltonstall Herbert Browell and Benjamin C Marsh. New items include Marsh dying at 74 after illness and mention of the People’s Lobby and U S government links in lobby work.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
GOP
Senate
Eisenhower
Ike
New York
Sen
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Armed Services Committee
Herbert Brownell
Benjamin C. Marsh
Winter Park
Fila
United States
People’s Lobby
Styles Bridges
N. H
Taft
Sherman Adams
New Hampshire
Milton R. Young
N. D
Agricultural Committee
Tom Stevens
Eisenhower Staff
Republicans Demand Complete List of Patronage Jobs
Edwin B Harkinson reports Republicans in Congress complain they cannot obtain a complete authentic list of government jobs open to political patronage. Senator Dworshak notes confusion over civil service coverage while the Civil Service Commission cites 170382 positions open to replacement. Republicans seek a formal list to oust Democrats and install Republicans with Rep Albert Cole leading the effort.
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Washington
New Republican Congress
Civil Service Commission
Sen
Dworshak
Idaho
Republican National Committee
Rep
Albert Cole
Bkan
National Guard Commemorative Stamp Planned First Day Sale
The Post Office Department announced the 3 cent National Guard commemorative stamp with a February 23 first day sale. The blue horizontal stamp shows a National Guardsman in action with a background of local disaster relief and an amphibious landing under Air National Guard.
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Washington
Post Office Department
National Guard
National
Air National Guard
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Kroehler Suites
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Kroehler
Howell
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Fifth Ave
Axminster
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