Cancer Danger Increasing Sharply Among women born in the 1940s, the chance of a The study concludes that cancercausing hazards besides smoking have been introduced into the us population in http://www.sumeria.net/canc/cancerboom.html
Extractions: By Peter Montague A white male of the baby boom generation is about twice as likely to get cancer as his grandfather was, and a white female of the same age has about a 50% greater chance of getting cancer than her grandmother did, according to a study published in February in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The study is limited to white people. The historical data (1950-1989) are also limited to whites because data on non-whites from the 1950s and 1960s are considered unreliable. (Racial bias in the medical research community appears to explain the poor quality of historical cancer data for non-whites: until the 1970s, either the data were not collected at all or were not collected systematically enough to allow comparison with data for whites.) The new JAMA study confirms for whites in the US what previous studies had shown for many industrialised countries: that the incidence rate for many cancers is increasing steadily even though the death rate for some cancers has been falling. Incidence rates and death rates are calculated per 100,000 persons in the population, and they are standardised to the age of the population in a selected year (1970 is often the year selected) so that the data can be reliably compared from one year to the next despite changes in the ages of the population. This means that the rising rates reported in JAMA and elsewhere are not caused by the population simply growing older.
Reality Film: Timeline: 1940s Timeline 1940s. Year. American History. Film History. 1940. Alfred Hitchcock s first us film, Rebecca, wins best picture honors. 1941. http://www.realityfilm.com/study/history/1940-1949.html
Extractions: Contact Us Timeline: 1940s Year American History Film History Franklin Delano Roosevelt wins a third term as president. Roosevelt sign the Selective Training and Service Act, which requires men ages 21-35 to register for military training. Alfred Hitchcock's first U.S. film, Rebecca, wins best picture honors. Japanese forces attack the naval face at Pearl Harbor. Almost 20 ships are destroyed or disable, 150 planes rendered useless, around 2,000 are killed, and around 1,200 are wounded. The United States declares war on Japan. Orson Welles directs Citizen Kane. U.S. troops combat the Japanese in various battles. Japanese-Americans are rounded up and relocated to internment camps. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences begins to give out an award for a "best documentary" category. The film that won was Churchill's Island , produced by the National Film Board of Canada. The film tells the story of Great Britain's defense against German takeover in the early days of World War II. Eight other films also were nominated, including several each from the United States, Canada, and Britain. The battles of World War II continue.
History 192 Night Study Questions Communist Party, and the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s? How did the Korean War influence the direction us policy was Study Questions for October 22. http://www.csun.edu/~rsh58410/history192nightstudyqs.htm
Extractions: 1. What were the major problems Mao and other Communist Party (CCP) Leaders faced in 1949? 2. What methods did the CCP use to assert its political and economic control in the 1950s? What devices for political control are evident in Red Azalea? 3. What was the Hundred Flowers campaign? How was it related to the Anti-Rightist movement? 4. What was the Great Leap Forward? How did it depart from normal Soviet/Communist methods of economic management? Why was it so destructive? 5. The Cultural Revolution (or technically, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution) is often described as a political comeback for Mao Zedong. Why? How did Mao justify his intervention in Chinese politics at this point? Who were the Red Guards and how did Mao use them? 6. In Red Azalea , how is Anchee Min affected by political campaigns in Shanghai? How do she and her parents respond to political pressures? 7. Once sent to Red Fire Farm, what kind of social and emotional repression do the narrator and her cohort face? Do they accept the CCP's version of their reality? Do they rebel? Why or why not?
Silent Spring Institute Study Finds Controversial Chemicals In the 1940s, a woman s lifetime risk of breast The us Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently released The study also called attention to the prolonged http://www.mindfully.org/Health/Chemicals-Women-Personal-Care.htm
Extractions: Business Wire 1nov00 Researchers at Silent Spring Institute have released the results of their latest study which reviewed 8,000 magazine advertisements featuring women's personal care products from 1950 through 1994 that might affect women's risk of breast cancer or other health problems. Researchers found that endocrine disruptors and other controversial compounds in many everyday personal care products have been marketed in popular women's magazines to both white and African-American women since the 1950s. A few of these chemicals have been taken off the market and some remain on the market today. Since the demographic differences seen in disease rates may be related to differences in the use of consumer products advertised to women, researchers looked to identify differences in product advertising across age, ethnic and socioeconomic groups. In the 1940s, a woman's lifetime risk of breast cancer in the US was 1 in 22; now it is 1 in 8. African-American women have lower rates of diagnosis, but are more likely to die from breast cancer. Researchers specifically chose to compare advertisements in publications with different target audiences such as Mademoiselle, Ladies' Home Journal, Essence and Ebony. According to Dr. Nancy Maxwell, the study's principal investigator, "At the heart of Silent Spring's inquiry is the fact that breast cancer risk is related to lifetime exposure to estrogen. Research over the past 10 years has revealed many compounds in everyday products can weakly mimic hormones, including estrogen, or block the action of natural hormones. These compounds are called endocrine disruptors because they alter the body's natural endocrine system. We were concerned about the demographic differences in how consumer products were marketed."
History And Memory, Center For The Study Of Time Period mostly 1940s50s. Indiana politics. us War Department. Time period 1930s-90s. Study of a single Catholic church in Dubois County. http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/collection.html
Extractions: CSHM Archive Holdings The following is an annotated list of the projects in the Center for the Study of History and Memory archive, 1968 to the present. The projects are listed alphabetically by project number and project title. Each annotation includes the year(s) the project was conducted, the number of interviews, the major time period(s) covered by the interviews, and a short list of subjects discussed by the interviewees. This is not a complete list of the range of topics in our collection. For a more complete search on a subject of interest to you, contact our office by Email or call us at 812/855-2856.
America: North America re teaching of pathology, 19456; us National Committee in North America some impressions of a study and lecture re visits to and papers given in usA, 1940s. http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTL039933.html
Medical College Of Wisconsin - Alumni Notes 1940s. He is a us Air Force veteran and has been affiliated with the American to serve as chairman of the surgery, anesthesiology and trauma study section of http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=1769
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Connecticut US 5, 5A In the 1940s, us 5 took a route around downtown New Haven to meet Route 5 study could start 1940) State Street south from today s Route 22; now part of us 5; http://www.kurumi.com/roads/ct/us5.html
Extractions: In Wallingford, US 5 has a grade-separated intersection with Route 68. In 1922, when route numbering debuted in Connecticut, much of US 5 was marked New England Interstate route NE-2. In 1926, US 5 was created, leading from New Haven to downtown Hartford, across the Bulkeley Bridge, and north through Enfield into Massachusetts. An alternate route north from Hartford, US 5A, was created on the west side of the Connecticut River. That's now Route 159.
Beryllium Timeline--The 1950's of the Kettering Laboratory. Results of the study are published in 1959 by the us Department of Commerce. Breslin Harris of the http://www.befacts.com/timeline/fifties.html
Extractions: On the medical front, the Beryllium Case Registry (BCR) establishes the criteria for determining whether an individual has CBD and new theories begin to develop regarding whether the chronic form of the disease has an immunological component or results from the traditional dose-response relationship. It will be decades (until the 1980s) before the medical-scientific community reaches consensus about this. Brush's "Air Sampling Program" for use at its Luckey, Ohio, plant includes eight-hour average exposure limits (for "special locations") and 72-hour average exposure limits (for other locations), with exposures measured using general area air sampling and breathing zone air sampling. Measurement of any sample exceeding 2 micrograms triggers "an immediate investigation" and use of "corrective measures to bring the sample below the target level." If sample results exceeding 2 micrograms persist for 15 days, the operation is shut down immediately "pending the installation of corrective procedures." A daily weighted average concentration exceeding 5 micrograms also triggers immediate shutdown.
Timeline Of Microbiology 1970s–present They also function as probes to study cell function. Small quantities remain held under tightly controlled conditions in the us and former usSR Smallpox is the http://www.microbeworld.org/htm/aboutmicro/timeline/tmln_5.htm
Extractions: YEAR Howard Temin and David Baltimore independently discover the enzyme reverse transcriptase in RNA viruses. Reverse transcriptase uses RNA as a template to synthesize a single-stranded DNA complement. This process establishes a pathway for genetic information flow from RNA to DNA. With Dulbecco, Baltimore and Temin are awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1975. Stanley Cohen, Annie Chang, Robert Helling and Herbert Boyer show that extrachromosomal bits of DNA called plasmids act as vectors for maintaining cloned genes in bacteria. They show that if DNA is broken into fragments and combined with plasmid DNA, such recombinant DNA molecules will reproduce if inserted into bacterial cells. The discovery is a major breakthrough for genetic engineering, allowing for such advances as gene cloning and the modification of genes. Georg Kohler and Cesar Milstein physically fuse mouse lymphocytes with neoplastic mouse plasma cells to yield hybrid cells called hybridomas that can produce specific antibodies and survive indefinitely in tissue culture. This approach offers a limitless supply of monoclonal antibodies. Monoclonal antibodies permit the generation of diagnostic tests that are highly specific. They also function as probes to study cell function. With Jerne, Kohler and Milstein are awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1984.
WETA Productions: Elizabeth Campbell The us Supreme Court, ruling in the case of Brown vs. by Elizabeth s convictions, decides to begin phased integration and forms a committee to study how best http://www.weta.org/productions/campbell/time50s.html
Extractions: Feedback Elizabeth becomes chair of the Arlington School Board. Ed Campbell runs for U.S. Congress hoping to represent the 10th district in Northern VA. To win the Democratic primary, Ed positions himself as a reformer outside the influence of Virginia's powerful and conservative Democratic political "machine" led by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd. Ed loses the final election–by 322 votes. His opponent, Joel Broyhill, goes on to serve 22 years in Congress. At the time, there were no provisions for recounts in Virginia congressional races. Some say Ed's loss is due to lack of support from the state's Democratic machine and the overwhelming Republican wave that swept across the nation following Dwight Eisenhower's election as president. Although the loss was a crushing blow at the time, Ed will later say he felt he had been able to do more for Virginia as a lawyer than a member of Congress. Elizabeth is re-elected to the Arlington County School Board. The FCC designates UHF channel 26 for educational television in Washington, D.C., one of 242 TV channels reserved nationwide for non-commercial educational use.
Extractions: The area has a rich history of tropical cyclone hits, including the infamous 1900 Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in United States history, Tropical Storm Claudette (1979), which produced the still-standing continental U.S. record 24-hour rainfall total of 43 inches in Alvin, and Tropical Storm Allison (2001) which devastated the Houston area while becoming the costliest tropical storm in United States history.
1953 | Nuclear Age Timeline March 17 Scientists study the impact of a nuclear blast on a fabricated American city sentenced as atomic spies in 1951, are executed by the us see March 29 http://www.nuclearfiles.org/hitimeline/1953.html
Extractions: home key issues history timeline ... J. Robert Oppenheimer is accused of disloyalty and of communist contacts. President Dwight Eisenhower suspends his security clearance, and in a full hearing the following year he is not reinstated. While many scientists defended him, Edward Teller claimed Oppenheimer delayed working on the hydrogen bomb. In 1958 an AEC review finds the proceedings to be "a primitive abuse of the judicial system." January Scientists study the impact of a nuclear blast on a fabricated American city during the test Annie at the Nevada Test Site. The test is part of Operation Cue , a series of projects conducted by the Federal Civil Defense Administration to evaluate the effects of nuclear detonations n civilian communities. March 20
1951 Nuclear Age Timeline September 17 us physicist Marshall Holloway is named leader of hydrogen bomb project December A fourman team at RAND begins to study the likely effects of the http://www.nuclearfiles.org/hitimeline/1951.html
Extractions: home key issues history timeline ... contact us The second British plutonium reactor starts operation in Windscale, Cumberland, to manufacture plutonium for nuclear weapons. In 1957 it caught fire and caused radioactive contamination of a wide area. To help the public forget, the town was renamed Sellafield. January
AIAA, History Of Flight February 14, 1980 Solar Maximum Mission was the first satellite to study the Sun 1982 - Perot and Coburn of the us complete the first around-the-world flight http://www.flight100.org/history/timeline.cfm?period=1980s
Chronology Of Modern Britain 1914-1919 Amritsar, Punjab RAF bombs Kabul, Afghanistan Treaty of Versailles Nancy Astor first woman to take seat in British Parliament (Women s studies Reference Sources http://www.bl.uk/collections/britirish/modbrichron_10.html
Extractions: document.write(''); Home Collections Modern British print ... Modern Irish Collections Chronology Published chronologies and guides This chronology takes the first year of the First World War as its start date. It gives a brief selection of significant political and cultural events and emphasises interesting books, magazines and special collections held by the Library and associated with the year in question. There are cover images and quotations from books published in particular years, and there are sound recordings of a selection of key events. Further suggestions are welcome and should be sent to Modern-British@bl.uk Listen to the sound samples with the Real Audio player British Library Sound Archive Publications 25th May
History -- Northwest College main campus by almost 23 percent with acquisition of the vacated us Air Force using the results of a comprehensive market research study conducted during the http://www.nwc.cc.wy.us/information/history/milestones.htm
Extractions: February 1945: Junior College Act passes The Junior College Act, after an early defeat in the 1945 Wyoming legislative session, was revised in the same session and made into law. Its passage allowed Wyoming school districts, with voter approval, to establish two-year adult education programs and the authority to levy up to two mills for operational support. In March 1946, Powell residents provided petition signatures to convince School District No. 1 to place the junior college issue before the electorate on June 17, 1946. This vote was preempted in April when the University of Wyoming announced its plans to establish a two-year, fully-accredited branch of the university the following fall in Powell. September 1946: University of Wyoming Northwest Center opens The UW Northwest Center, the first satellite branch of the University of Wyoming, opened Sept. 10, 1946, in the Powell High School building. Classes began Sept. 16. Clarence Moore was the center director and Paul Fawley, Powell's superintendent of schools, was named assistant director. The university funded the teaching staff, library and administrative costs while the school district provided the building and paid for janitorial and secretarial services and necessary equipment and supplies. Classes were taught by seven teachers, including the center director, in second-floor classrooms at the high school. Accounts of student enrollment vary from 58-90, with the Powell Tribune reporting a final fall enrollment count of 75.
