Cancer Research: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1875, a Bill to Authorize and Request the President to Undertake to Mobilize at Some Convenient Place in the United States an Adequate Number of the World's Outstanding Experts, and Coordinate and Utilize Their Services in a Supreme Endeavor to Discover Means of Curing and Preventing Cancer, July 1, 2, and 3, 1946U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946 - 227 pages |
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... Atom Byproducts Aid in Two Types of Cancer , by Science Service , San Francisco , Calif . 171 Exhibit 2. Letter of July 2 , 1946 , from Senator Charles C. Gossett , Idaho .. Exhibit 3. Letter of July 1 , 1946 , from William M. McKay ...
... Atom Byproducts Aid in Two Types of Cancer , by Science Service , San Francisco , Calif . 171 Exhibit 2. Letter of July 2 , 1946 , from Senator Charles C. Gossett , Idaho .. Exhibit 3. Letter of July 1 , 1946 , from William M. McKay ...
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... atomic bomb on which we spent over $ 2,000,000,000 . In this case , however , we would spend only a small fraction as much money to save lives as we did in building the atomic bomb to take lives . I would like to see a commission set up ...
... atomic bomb on which we spent over $ 2,000,000,000 . In this case , however , we would spend only a small fraction as much money to save lives as we did in building the atomic bomb to take lives . I would like to see a commission set up ...
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... atomic energy . While the Greeks knew about atomic forces , we were , prior to the Second World War , hardly closer to the utilization of those forces . Similarly , 2,000 years ago Galen already attributed cancer to " black bile in the ...
... atomic energy . While the Greeks knew about atomic forces , we were , prior to the Second World War , hardly closer to the utilization of those forces . Similarly , 2,000 years ago Galen already attributed cancer to " black bile in the ...
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... atomic energy in rela- tionship to matter . Such studies are now possible through the instruments that have been developed by atomic research as well as the collateral major instru- ments of science now used in chemistry and physics ...
... atomic energy in rela- tionship to matter . Such studies are now possible through the instruments that have been developed by atomic research as well as the collateral major instru- ments of science now used in chemistry and physics ...
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... atomic bomb was only one phase of that warfare . - In attacking the cancer problem we are attacking a basic life prob- lem . The result of that investigation will undoubtedly revolution- ize our whole conception of medicine ; it ...
... atomic bomb was only one phase of that warfare . - In attacking the cancer problem we are attacking a basic life prob- lem . The result of that investigation will undoubtedly revolution- ize our whole conception of medicine ; it ...
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Action Against Cancer ADAMS administrative agency American Cancer Society appoint appropriation atomic bomb attack Avenue biological cancer bill cancer patients cancer problem cancer research cell chairman CLAUDE PEPPER clinical committee on growth Congress coordination cure DEAR SENATOR PEPPER deaths director disease division doctors effort experience facilities favor fellowships field of cancer Foundation Gerson diet Gerson dietary regime GIMSON Government Action Investigator July June 28 June 30 laboratory Lasker malignant Manhattan project Max Gerson medical research Medical School medicine Memorial Hospital MILEY Miss HANNA National Cancer Commission National Cancer Institute National Research Council Neely Neely-Pepper operation organization panel Pepper-Neely bill Period of grant PERLMUTTER physicians present President professor proposed Public Health Service radium recommended scientists Senator CLAUDE PEPPER Senator PEPPER Sponsors of Government statement Street Subcommittee Surgeon surgery tion Title of project tumor United States Senate University Washington X-ray York City
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