Word: extract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Towering, rawboned Major General Mark Wayne Clark, fresh from a submarine, had led his men into the house on a dangerous mission: to extract as much information and win as much support from the French Army as possible. The time was mid-October, three weeks before the U.S. Army planned to invade. All that night and all next day Mark Clark and his men talked and argued with the French officers. All went well until word came that Vichy-controlled police, informed by an Arab servant, were nearing the house...
From dried poison-ivy leaves Sergeant Shapiro concocts a unique extract which cures ivy poisoning, cause of 15 to 30% of summer and fall casualties in Southern Army posts. The dried, crushed leaves are soaked in pure alcohol until it turns an intense green. This solution is then filtered, put up in 50 cc. (1⅔ oz.) bottles and shipped to Army camps throughout the Fourth Service Command (the Southeastern...
...cure an ivy-poisoned soldier, one-tenth of a cc. of the extract (diluted with one cc. of salt solution) is injected intramuscularly. Burning sensations vanish within two to 24 hours, all blistering within two to five days, and no hospitalization is needed. The average untreated case suffers from one to three weeks, often in a hospital. Sergeant Shapiro's extract cannot prevent ivy poisoning; it desensitizes skin only after an attack. Applied externally, it produces a fine case of poison ivy itself...
Sergeant Shapiro, who before the war was a chemist for a New Jersey flavoring-extract firm, has already brewed 50,000 cc. of the poison-ivy inoculant-enough for half a million injections. But the extract is not his invention. It was developed by Colonel Sanford Williams French, a longtime Army doctor who commands the medical branch of the Fourth Service Command. French, one of the 40% of mankind who are relatively immune to poison ivy, can safely gather the plant barehanded. Sergeant Shapiro cannot. Paradoxically, he is one of the few individuals on whom the poison-ivy extract will...
...distinctive brand. Brilliant, dashing, he depends strongly upon picked subordinates of whom he requires the same luminous qualities. Quiet, monotonal George Marshall requires great competence, but he does not demand brilliance; he knows how to use the human tools at hand, considering it part of his duty to extract the utmost from merely adequate...