Word: armours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that happy event is years distant, at best. Last week, Chicago's Armour Laboratories, the world's main source of ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone), gave the reasons...
...takes 1,360 of them to make a pound, from which about 1½ grams (a third of a teaspoonful) of ACTH can be extracted in a solution and separated as a fluffy, white powder. The process is remarkably simple. But even with the cooperation of non-Armour stockyards, the Armour Laboratories can get so far only about 125,000 hog pituitaries a week-enough to make five ounces of ACTH. All the hogs slaughtered in the U.S. would not yield much more than a pound a week...
Spread Thin. Having spread the facts on the record, Armour Laboratories began spreading the short supply of ACTH thinner than ever. Contracts were signed with 45 leading hospitals and clinics across the U.S. To qualify for a tiny share of the priceless powder (it is not for sale), each institution must show that it has the staff and equipment to carry out carefully controlled experiments...
Touted Wide. Medical researchers and big, blond Dr. John R. Mote, head of Armour Laboratories, would be happier if publicity on ACTH could have been delayed until their work was farther advanced. But the results of the first experimental treatments were too good to be withheld. The laboratories and clinics known to be using ACTH experimentally were bombarded with unanswerable requests from arthritis sufferers for a supply of the drug...
Back Talk. Armour & Co.'s Chairman George A. Eastwood had an answer to the Government's charge in an antitrust suit (TIME, Sept. 27) that meat packers had conspired to keep prices high, and thereby assure high profits. Because of the ten week packinghouse workers' strike and the upsurge in livestock prices last spring, Armour & Co. will wind up the year with a $2,000,000 loss on close to $2 billion in sales...