Word: acids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the beginning of World War II British doctors, fearing another epidemic, have sought a quick, simple cure for the disease. Last week in the Lancet, Dentist John James Duncan King of the University Field Laboratories in Sheffield, England announced that he had found one: nicotinic acid...
Nicotinic acid, one of the elements of the Vitamin B complex, is found in liver, yeast, milk, green vegetables, fish and lean meat. It is a cure for pellagra, a diet-deficiency disease common in the southern U. S. but virtually unknown in Britain. Since the filmy, bleeding gums of trench mouth are similar to the symptoms of early pellagra, Dr. King had a hunch that trench mouth, too, might be caused by nicotinic acid deficiency which broke down gum tissue, paved the way for bacterial invasion. So he fed small amounts of the acid dissolved in water...
...last week most Britons figured that they might lose everything even if Britain won, that they would surely lose everything if not; and they were prepared to devote much more than was asked to national defense. The News Chronicle called the budget "Timid and tinkering." The Daily Mirror'?, acid "Cassandra" wrote: "It's like its creator-chubby, cheery, ineffective, unimaginative and hopelessly inadequate. It limps far behind public demand." In plainer sight than ever was the plan of liberal Economist John Maynard Keynes to appropriate a part of everybody's salary, "hold it" for him until after...
...question of the Burma route with the question of peace between China and Japan, this would virtually amount to assisting Japan to bring China into submission." He instructed Ambassador Quo Tai-chi to protest at the British Foreign Office. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull issued an acid statement declaring that the closure was against U. S. interests in "open arteries of commerce." In the House of Commons, a long-standing sympathizer with China, Liberal Geoffrey Mander, complained so bitterly about the smell of appeasement that Prime Minister Churchill was obliged to make his first Parliamentary statement...
Chemicals: Ammonia and ammonium compounds, chlorine, dimethylaniline (for explosives), diphenylamine (for smokeless powder), nitric acid, nitrates, nitrocellulose, soda lime, sodium acetate, strontium chemicals (for explosives), sulfuric acid...