Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Died. Charles William Anderson Scott, 43, British war (I) ace who thrice broke the England-Australia flight record (1931-32-34); winner of the Harmon Trophy as the best aviator of 1934, winner of the 1936 Portsmouth-Johannesburg air race; by his own hand (gunshot); in Germany...
...Inspiring. At noon he and Clint Anderson sat down with Production Marketing Administration agents and Farmers' Union bosses for a well-advertised starvation lunch: a cup of potato soup, one piece of bread (no butter), one cup of coffee (no cream or sugar). Butch lighted a cigar and looked slyly at the hungry diners from the northwest plains. Then waiters trooped in with salmon steak, potatoes, string beans, plenty of bread & butter...
...Real Thing. Across 70 miles of Red River Valley flatlands, past fields of new-seeded wheat, he and Anderson drove to Climax, Minn. (pop. 253). Some 3,000 farmers, wives & children turned out to see them. They watched wheat being loaded into a Northern Pacific train. "This is as near the real thing as I've seen," Butch exulted, and with a mouth full of tacks started hammering signs on the wheat cars: MORE FOOD FOR UNRRA...
Then he and Anderson headed east. Behind them the trucks continued to roll towards the railroads. In Clint Anderson's notebook were written UNRRA's hopes-delivery in the next three weeks of 110,000,000 bushels of wheat from the plateaus and prairies of Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Washington, Oregon. At last, the wheat was rolling...