Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Syphilis. The one-day syphilis cure-again for new infections only-combines: 1) single massive doses of mapharsen (an organic arsenic compound); 2) a ten-hour fever (106° F.) artificially induced by hot humid air while the patient lies in a coffinlike cabinet developed in part by General Motors Research Director Charles Kettering. By increasing the body's tolerance for arsenic, the fever enables doctors to compress the recently developed five-to ten-day treatment (without fever) into...
Cattle fed on synthetic urea like it and grow fat. This announcement from the University of Wisconsin last week concluded its five-year study of the nutritive value of synthetic urea, opened a new era in feeds, perhaps in foods. Urea is a reasonably priced, simple nitrogen compound made chemically from nothing more than ammonia and carbon dioxide. Not a protein, synthetic urea is so closely related to protein that it can replace a major part of the vegetable proteins in cattle feed. Urea is manufactured in large quantity for use in many types of plastics and as a rich...
...treated film, there is no surface emulsion and no silver. Instead, a strip of cellophane is thoroughly impregnated with a mixture of "diazo" compounds which are closely related to dyes, but are only a faint yellow in color. Wherever light strikes, the diazo compounds are quickly and effectively bleached. Developing and fixing are combined in a single operation (exposure of the film to ammonia fumes), which may be done in subdued daylight. This exposure does not change the portions of the film that light has reached, but the ammonia turns the unexposed diazo compound red (or some other color, depending...
This opinion, of competent soldiers on the spot, was based on a compound of good news. The steady flow of American ships carrying troops, planes and all the impedimenta of war continued, so broadly that this week several brands of American cigarets were being issued to troops. Dutch air units, which had reached Australia planeless, were now ready for action. The Philippine and Tokyo raids lifted morale, while the Allied raids on New Guinea and New Britain carried on a positive defense - keeping the Japanese in enough confusion so that they apparently could not mount an attack, at least...
...McNutt. While the full scope of his authority was not entirely clear, men who expertly analyze White House orders were sure that snow-crested Paul McNutt, who had rejected a sure Vice Presidential nomination in Chicago in 1940 because Franklin Roosevelt wanted Henry A. Wallace, had received a compound-interest reward...