Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best drug yet found for African sleeping sickness, according to U.S. Public Health Service doctors, is gamma (paraarsenosophenyl) -butyric acid. In tests conducted for U.S. troops in Africa, the new drug apparently cleared up early cases entirely, helped somewhat in late cases...
When the plant system-steel and all-is in production, China will be able to manufacture an impressive range of products, e.g., steel ingots, rolled shapes, aluminum, sulphuric acid, coal tar, alcohol, gasoline, fertilizers, electric motors, tires and tubes, light bulbs and bicycles...
Half seriously, Dr. Waksman predicts that since penicillin is an acid and streptomycin is a base, they may eventually be combined into a salt, "penicillin streptomycinate." The salt might be so effective against so many diseases that doctors would no longer have to make diagnoses; they could give it for all infectious diseases, and many of the courses in medical schools could be abolished...
...good dentifrice "is not gritty and does not contain an acid." Grit test: use a nickel to rub some dentifrice on a piece of glass; if the glass is not scratched, the teeth presumably will...
...Acid Test. The real test-battle-only confirmed their liking. On Jan. 8, a young flyer of the Ninth named Richard Bong scored the fifth kill that made him an ace. Other scores soon piled up to compete with his. Quickest to become an ace was Captain James A. Watkins, who in one week ran his total from one to eleven. But by then Dick Bong...