Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Motors wanted a quick "discovery." To act as a refrigerant, a new freezing agent must be found which had a boiling point between 0° and -40° Centigrade. The compound must also be nonpoisonous and noninflammable. Would Mr. Midgley please get busy...
Late one Friday, Army Ordnance telephoned Jersey Standard in Manhattan. Said Ordnance: General Dwight D. Eisenhower had just cabled, asking for immediate delivery of 45,000 lb. of a special water-repellent compound never before made in the U.S. Eisenhower had just heard of the new compound from the British, who had used it with great success. The goo was sketchily described. By Monday enough machinery had been thrown together to fill the order; materials had been rushed by police-escorted Army trucks to Standard's Baltimore grease plant...
...After Panafrica's mosquito-proofing be gan, malaria was almost completely routed. In September 1942, only one man in 1,400 acquired malaria at an air station; in October, only three out of 1,820. Most striking lesson was the experience of two groups in the same compound less than a quarter of a mile apart. One had almost no protection against mosquitoes and depended on quinine. The other group had quarters "which were well mosquito-proofed. . . . Their quarters were also sprayed with an insecticide each evening and each man donned long trousers, a long-sleeved shirt and mosquito...
When the Japs left, the townsfolk returned. Of Yukiang nothing remained but desolation. In the streets, outside burned and wrecked buildings, lay dead bodies, bearing evidence of frightful tortures. Bishop Quinn looked for Father Verdini. In the rear of the priests' compound he found his sun helmet, a muddied jacket, human bones...
...Squibb & Sons, Charles Pfizer & Co and the Lederle Laboratories are all making penicillin, "in no instance has production advanced beyond the pilot-plant stage," and supplies for civilian use will be "exceedingly limited." The Army recently tried penicillin on a few veterans from the Pacific suffering from compound fractures, osteomyelitis and wound infections. First results were so good that the Medical Corps will soon extend trials to 16 hospitals, has ordered 100 times as much penicillin as can be made in a year at present rates...