Word: carnochan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gouvernour Morris Carnochan...
Gonverneur Morris Carnochan...
...City plant was built in the earlier days of the war, when laboratory mice for the processing of tropical-disease serum were desperately scarce in the U.S. Government joined forces with industrv-which in this case turned out to be professional mouse breeders Frederic G. Carnochan and C. N. Wentworth Cumming. They already had a plant at New City. With Government aid, production zoomed from some 5,000 to 15,000 mice a week (price: 25? a mouse). Old. blue-blooded European strains, in danger of war extermination, were crated, bedded down on peanut shells, and flown to New City...