Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around from the German Legation, the British received 72 prisoners, the Russians eight. The Allies threatened to get good & tough (i.e., to occupy Teheran) unless consignments speeded up immediately. Next day the Iranian Government ordered the removal of 400 more male Nazis from the German Legation's compound...
Meantime, within the compound of the German Legation's summer offices, eight miles outside the Iranian capital of Teheran, some 700 of the Führer's subjects were packed sardine-tight, living in tents. Hundreds more had fled to the provinces and were in hiding. It was reported that the Allies would round them up, send them to India and Siberia. Also allegedly somewhere in Iran was explosion-whiskered Haj Amin El-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who engineered Arab riots in Palestine, helped Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani stage his revolt in Iraq. The British...
Into the sun-hammered compound of Aden's Government House one day this spring ambled two mean, dusty camels, bearing on their backs 1,200 pounds of coffee for Governor Sir John Hathorn Hall. The coffee was a gift from the Imam of the Red Sea state of Yemen. Connoisseurs call the Mocha coffee of Yemen the finest in the world, but Sir John had an even better reason to be grateful for the gift...
...limited mainly to meningitis, erysipelas, urinary-tract infections. It is easy to take, "well handled by the body and excreted without difficulty," but it brings about two "exceedingly common" complications: anemia and cyanosis (lack of oxygen). On the whole, it is "less effective therapeutically than other related compounds and is being supplanted by them." It is the only sulfonamide compound which can be given rectally with success...
...City hospitals plan to treat early cases of syphilis with the five-day arsenic drip method (TIME, April 22, 1940). Since it seems that heavy doses of arsenic compound drain the body's supply of vitamin C, Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. has agreed to provide extra fruits and vegetables in an attempt to bolster up a number of reliefers with venereal infections...