Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acid Test. In Durham, England, Walter Richards, onetime BBC broadcaster on Crime Does Not Pay, drew a three-year sentence for shopbreaking...
...earthquake rocked the Washington coast and parts of British Columbia and Oregon. Goldfish were slopped out of outdoor ponds in Seattle. Sulphuric acid spilled over the edge of a smelter vat in Tacoma, made workmen run like rabbits,, The quake lasted for 45 minutes, but was only noticeable for two. Nobody was killed. Seismologists explained that the quake had come from the ocean floor, 200 miles west. But almanac readers knew better. That was the day a B-29 dropped a practice explosive bomb at Bikini Atoll. The earth had twitched slightly, like a horse plagued...
...Enriched white bread is a better source of iron than whole wheat; the phytic acid in the whole grain makes much of its iron indigestible...
...from being a newcomer to the chemical field. Started by two German chemists, Charles Pfizer and his brother-in-law Charles Erhart, in 1849, the company soon got a reputation for producing high quality chemicals. But it was still small in 1923, when it began producing citric acid by a new process, the vegetative fermentation of sugar. Up till then citric acid, the most widely used organic acid in the food and beverage field, was produced chiefly in Europe from lemon and lime juice. With its new process, Pfizer broke the foreign monopoly...
Pfizer began producing other chemicals by fermentation (oxalic acid, gluconic acid, sorbose). Thus, when the Government launched a top-secret program in 1943 to get penicillin mold produced in large quantities, Pfizer was one of the companies chosen for the job. Many chemists doubted that it could be done. But Pfizer President George A. Anderson, now Board Chairman, risked $3 million of Pfizer cash to build a new plant, was the first to mass-produce penicillin...