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Other important penicillin news: Drs. George H. Robinson and James E. Wallace of Pittsburgh have used crude green penicillium mold (which produces the drug penicillin) in healing stubborn surface wounds. Highly refined penicillin, on which the armed forces have priorities, is necessary for bloodstream injections, but the doctors did not see why surface poultices needed to be so fancy. Their idea was that the living mold might make penicillin right in the wound. They are not sure what actually happens, but the results are good. With mold-inoculated gauze they cured a man with an acute bone infection...
...navigators, the traditional magnetic compass has the defect of being too crude. Despite modern refinements, it is still essentially a magnetized needle kept pointed north by the earth's magnetic field. It must be corrected constantly by tricky calculations, because of 1) interfering magnetic fields from surrounding metallic objects, and 2) geographical variations in the earth's magnetic field, some of which result from the fact that the magnetic poles are not the earth's true poles...
...Puritan-Protestant Idea. The fact that Beard was no crude materialist has been apparent for years to those who have read his occasional magazine articles. Beard's vision of America has always been rooted in a moral idea, the Puritan-Protestant idea of "take care of your family and lend a helping hand to those who deserve...
...sign reads: "Welcome to Burma-Courtesy of the Hairy Ears." It stands beside a crude road that plunges through the jungles, curls around the southeastern slopes of the mountains on the India-Burma border. The Hairy Ears are the U.S. Army engineers who for ten months now have been working on a prodigious undertaking-the "Ledo Road," a new route into Burma. Last week the Army proudly unveiled...
...Harry Sinclair suspected that the old days were gone forever. After an appropriate wait, while the State Department harrumphed and other U.S. oil companies stood on their legal, unenforceable rights, he made his own direct deal with Mexican realists. For $8,500,000 on the barrelhead, plus enough crude to net Sinclair a tidy profit, Mexico could have the whole Sinclair properties with no legalistic strings attached. Last week's check from good Don Francisco was the final payment...