Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke of Westminster, stupendously rich English nobleman, the Aga Khan, very rich Mohammedan lord, and certain of their rich, sporting cronies have canceled their mortgage on Henry Spahlinger's secret vaccine against tuberculosis. A few people in the U. S. last week knew the formula for manufacturing the vaccine, which doctors have demanded since Henry Spahlinger first crossed medical tempers. But those in the know were reticent in admitting their knowledge. For detailed information it was better to write directly to Mr. Spahlinger at his Institut Bacterio-therapique in Geneva, Switzerland, or to the proud English folk who attended...
...become more English than Italian, there came to Berkeley Square a distinguished company. It included the Marquess of Crewe, statesman, diplomat, minor poet; Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice; Dr. Sir Harry Edwin Bruce Bruce-Porter. To them Henry Spahlinger dramatically announced that he was about to place his formula at the disposal of the world, free of charge...
...made physicians suspicious of his claims. Certain patients in London hospitals submitted to the Spahlinger treatment. A few of them apparently were cured. His talkative, rich friends bruited his "cures," gave him unprofessional fame. A manufacturer of patent medicines offered him, it was said, $1,000.000 for his "formula." That "bribe" Henry Spahlinger disdained, spent his entire fortune of some $500,000 on perfecting his remedy. It was then that the Aga Khan, the Duke of Westminster and others placed their lien, now canceled, on the formula of manufacture. Henry Spahlinger thus had money to live on and to prosecute...
When trench warfare forced the French generals to revise their Fochian formula, the real grind of modern war began. These were dark times for Foch. His son and son-in-law had been killed. He himself fell out of favor, was retired by Joffre from command of the Northern Group of Armies. Not until the throes of disaster led the Allies to appoint him their supreme commander could his faith burn openly where all could see and feel. "Materially, I do not see that victory is possible. Morally I am certain that we shall gain it." The Author. Born...
...still the only real rescue was one of diplomacy, not of arms. Day and night U. S. and British diplomats in Tokyo. Nanking, London, Washington struggled to give birth to a formula. Finally they found one which they promptly dispatched for presentation simultaneously to the foreign offices at Tokyo and Nanking but which was obviously intended primarily for the Japanese. The five points of the formula...