Word: ammonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of its name, it is no kin to the complex, miracle-working sulfonamide drugs, which contain sulfur, ammonia, benzene...
...shock. This is a state of physical and mental depression which follows injury. Simplest ways to recognize shock are by a victim's complexion, failing respiration; if he turns white, has a lifeless expression, he must be covered up immediately, kept warm, given a sniff of spirits of ammonia, a drink of strong tea or coffee. First Aiders must never give alcohol to their victims...
...SPAB last week approved the allocation of 218,000 metric tons of scarce U.S. tinplate to 19 Latin American countries* enough to stock their canners for this season. By this week's end, similar allocation approvals were expected on iron & steel, tanning materials, soda ash, farm equipment, anhydrous ammonia, rayon, cork, borax and acetone; eventually on 101 products...
...have priority rating, were 14 materials: aluminum, borax (and boric acid),* copper, cork, ferro-tungsten, machine tools, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, polyvinyl chloride (for plastics), rubber, synthetic rubber, tungsten high-speed steel, zinc. Pig iron was soon to be added. So were some heavy chemicals-sulfuric acid and possibly ammonia...
...prefix meaning a compound of sulfur and ammonia. Sulfa is medical shorthand for sul-fonatnide...