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...rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile has a loose tubular jacket which sticks in the rubber lining and keeps the hole open. > Agar-agar, gelatinous medium essential for growing bacteria in the preparation of vaccines against typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and whooping cough, was practically a Japanese monopoly before Pearl Harbor. Japs quietly got much of it from seaweed beds along the U.S. Pacific coast, taking care that no one else knew the location. The University of California has now discovered four species of California seaweed rich in agar, ending the frantic search...
...Cairo, Harry Zinder, knows practically every newsmaker in the Middle East, from the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (who claims descent from Mohammed but has blue eyes and a blond beard) to stern, Bible-quoting General Montgomery of the British Eighth Army (who can't stand having his soldiers cough when he speaks and has a picture of Rommel pinned over his bed). Jack Belden, TIME'S roving correspondent in the East, probably knows General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell better than any other correspondent alive (he was with him on that long, nerve-racking, bug-bitten trek out of Burma...
...Demands for cough drops show that they could go up 100%, but sales are kept down by the sugar shortage. > First-aid equipment sales are up 67.1% (80% bought by women). Coastal States, according to Drug Topics, have bought more than interior States, suggesting that the gauze-buying is a blitz-preparedness move...
...deliver to man. Chemicals can get them after they change their shapes and start dividing, prevent development of symptoms. If symptoms develop, chemicals can usually help a patient get well-at least from that attack-by killing them in the circulating blood. But a round of malaria, unlike whooping cough, does not prevent a patient from coming down with it again...
...stern disciplinarian, but he has the devotion of his men. Famous are his orders to his staff at the beginning of a conference: "I do not approve of coughing or smoking. There will be no smoking. For two minutes you may cough. Thereafter coughing will cease." Nor does he drink...