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Finally, there were the technical improvements in antibiotics and transfusions. Penicillin, scarce and little understood in World War II, was available in Korea in carload lots, in suspensions which would stay in the system for many life-saving hours. Also on hand were aureomycin, Chloromycetin and Terramycin, often effective where penicillin fails. There was also whole blood, which the Army doctors used more & more in preference to plasma. The shipping and preservation were so efficient (it must be used within 21 days) that Dr. Meiling reported proudly : "Not one unit was lost during September by being outdated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Wounded | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...sued for "mental anguish" by relatives when one shipment was delayed). This spring it added the Furniture Manufacturers' Association of Southern California as a steady customer. Prescott convinced the association that it could save on crating, ship cheaper by air than by the railroads' less-than-carload lots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Flying a Tiger | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...overhauled the administration of the provincial government, thrown out unnecessary officials by the carload, given government posts to large numbers of Formosans. He has also pressed for early local elections, against the advice of more conservative Nationalist leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: Man On The Dike | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...Lattimore, Strachey and Joliot-Curie were not spies. The ideas of Lattimore, Strachey and Joliot-Curie were not the same, but anyone with a lively sense of danger in the free world could legitimately hold the opinion that the ideas of these three might be more dangerous than a carload of spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: Ideas Can Be Dangerous | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...Camels and Old Golds promptly replied to FTC. The ads, said the tobaccomen, had been discontinued six years ago when FTC first objected to them. In its current campaign, Old Golds was plainly trying to live down the days when it had boasted "Not a cough in a carload." Now its ads loftily proclaimed: "A treat instead of a treatment." Camel had also switched somewhat. It now stated that its "30-day mildness test" of smokers, supervised by "noted throat specialists," produced no evidence of throat irritation due to smoking Camels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Smoke Screen | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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