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Recently Annie arrived in Gooneyville to stay awhile with Spike Spangle, an old friend of her foster father, Daddy Warbucks. There she found that Fred Flask, village ration official, had taken away the Spangles' "A" book because they had used their car to make a 20-mile sick call...
...meat buyers. With more free cash than ever before and a shortage-sharpened yen for meat, U.S. citizens pay without complaint far over ceiling prices. Los Angeles aircraft workers pay $1.95 a Ib. for steak, then display their prize like a Prohibition college boy showing off his flask; Manhattan housewives happily fork over 80? a Ib. for beef liver...
...there were a bottle of beer or a flask of Scotch in the 180,000 square miles of Allied New Guinea, some of the thousands of doughboys now fighting in 98° temperature of the north-coast jungles might be able to build up some sort of festive spirit this Christmas. But there...
...credulity of U.S. doctors was sorely strained when Caltech biochemists revealed last spring that for the first time they had created antibodies in laboratory flasks. These artificial antibodies-the substances which form in the blood to fight poisons or diseases-were capable of attacking only a few simple chemical poisons (TIME, March 30). The latest news from Caltech is even more incredible: antibodies against bacterial disease, pneumonia III (one of the several forms of lung infection), have now been made synthetically. This achievement of Biochemists Linus Pauling and Dan Campbell is still in the realm of experimental medicine, and flask...
...made their artificial pneumonia antibodies from serum globulin extracted from beef blood. Steps in the process: 1) the globulin molecules were heated to 135° F. for two weeks to make their structures "unfold"; 2) a complex sugar secreted by the pneumonia type III bacteria was added to the flask; 3) the solution was slowly cooled so that the molecules folded up again. But influenced by the bacterial sugar, the folding molecules assumed a modified structure in the flask, just as they would in the blood stream. Thus they became antibodies. Several tests showed that the artificial pneumonia antibodies were...