Editing Interlingua (section)

===Interlingua's first decades===
An early practical application of Interlingua was the scientific newsletter ''Spectroscopia Molecular'', published from 1952 to 1980.{{sfn|Breinstrup|2006b}} In 1954, the Second World Cardiological Congress in Washington, D.C. released summaries of its talks in both English and Interlingua. Within a few years, it found similar use at nine further medical congresses. Between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, some thirty scientific and medical journals provided article summaries in Interlingua.{{sfn|Gopsill|1990|pp=104–106}} Gode wrote a monthly column in Interlingua in the ''Science Newsletter'' published by the [[Society for Science and the Public|Science Service]] from the early 1950s until his death in 1970.

[[International Auxiliary Language Association|IALA]] closed its doors in 1953 but was not formally dissolved until 1956 or later.{{sfn|Breinstrup|Stenström|Olsson|2007}} Its role in promoting Interlingua was largely taken on by Science Service,{{sfn|Gopsill|Sexton|2006c}} which hired Gode as head of its newly formed [[Interlingua Division of Science Service|Interlingua Division]].{{sfn|Breinstrup|Stenström|Olsson|2012}} [[Hugh E. Blair]], Gode's close friend and colleague, became his assistant.{{sfn|Breinstrup|2006d}} A successor organization, the Interlingua Institute,{{sfn|Breinstrup|Stenström|Olsson|2009}} was founded in 1970 to promote Interlingua in the US and Canada. The new institute supported the work of other linguistic organizations, made considerable scholarly contributions and produced Interlingua summaries for scholarly and medical publications. One of its largest achievements was two immense volumes on phytopathology produced by the American Phytopathological Society in 1976 and 1977.{{sfn|Breinstrup|Stenström|Olsson|2007}}

Beginning in the 1980s, UMI has held international conferences every two years (typical attendance at the earlier meetings was 50 to 100) and launched a publishing programme that eventually produced over 100 volumes.{{sfn|Le Union Mundial pro Interlingua}}{{sfn|Breinstrup|Stenström|Olsson|2007}} Several [[Scandinavia]]n schools undertook projects that used Interlingua as a means of teaching the international scientific and intellectual vocabulary.{{sfn|Breinstrup|2006c}}

In 2000, the Interlingua Institute was dissolved amid funding disputes with the UMI; the American Interlingua Society, established the following year, succeeded the institute.{{sfn|Breinstrup|Stenström|Olsson|2009}}