Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neostibosan, an antimony compound, seems to have cured eleven out of 33 Puerto Rican filariasis patients. Drs. Harry Rose and James T. Culbertson of Columbia University, who have given the treatments since last April, believe that the drug may eventually cure some of their other patients. (The disease sometimes results in the monstrous swellings of elephantiasis.) This is good news for U.S. troops in the Southwest Pacific area...
...Lonnie Gapen, who run a paint & wallpaper business in Morgantown, W. Va. They worked on their tire formula for six years, recently perfected it with the help of the Andy Brothers Tire Shop in Washington. The abrasive material (a sawdust mixture) is mixed with recapping camelback (uncured rubber compound) under pressure, then applied to a tire by the usual molding process. The Gapen brothers claim that their tires will outlast ordinary ones. They have driven some of their recaps 9,500 miles...
...evacuation hospital they recalled the horrors and degradation they had endured for almost three years; the last days on Corregidor, when the enemy lost 4,500 troops in his final frenzied attack; the death march from Bataan; the sight of Filipino children impaled on Jap bayonets; the notorious compounds at Camp O'Donnell, where the death rate among captives had been as high as 250 a day; the filthy and vermin-ridden compound at Pangatian, where every foot of ground finally was a filled-in latrine; the diet of rice, sweet potatoes, radish tops, "pigweed," fish powder; the beatings...
...clock of the 22nd day of this year's last month (reckoned by the Chinese lunar calendar) winter ends. Every such calendar has this day plainly marked. It says: "Eggs will stand upon their ends." Improbable though it seems, so they did. The Press Hostel compound was dotted with eggs foolishly, standing on end. Which end seemed to be of little concern to the eggs; they were erect on either their small ends or their large ends, and sometimes they even showed off by holding a leaning-tower stance...
...molecule, magnified nearly 100,000,000 times (its actual size: one forty-millionth of an inch), is hexamethylbenzene, an organic compound derived from coal tar. Its design, deduced from its chemical behavior, has long been pictured in chemistry books as follows...