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...ruling specifically would declare taxable money awarded by the Guggenheim Foundation to a chemistry professor for study of structural chemistry, to a writer to complete a novel, to a biologist to study aquatic fungi, and to a social scientist for research on the relations betwen government and economic processes...
...thing, fluorochemicals are unusually stable. Unlike the organic chemicals, which are often inflammable or explosive, they resist decomposition by heat, chemical reagents or ultraviolet light. They are not attacked by bacteria or fungi. Some of them are very strong acids, others are so inert that they make fine fire extinguishers...
Because ringworm is caused by various fungi, cures that worked somewhere else had no certainty of curing the Soo. Most effective help came from Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., of Nutley, N.J., which followed up the TIME story by sending Dr. Ruth Wolfe to hold rallies in which she taught mothers to use an experimental drug called R02-2453. Hoffmann-La Roche flew in 200 cases of this new medicine to help stop the spreading fungus...
Truffles are underground mushrooms-stonelike, spore-bearing fruit of fungi that live on tree roots. The insects and small animals which distribute truffle spores are attracted by the powerful, penetrating odor. The odor also interests dogs, hogs, goats and gourmets. The truffle has been in high fashion as an accent for royal feasts since the time of Pliny...
...Sweet potato stems and leaves, reported Department of Agriculture researchers at Beltsville, Md., also produced two antibiotics. One worked against Staphylococcus aureus, the germ that causes boils; the other against fungi that damage plants. In the skins and pulps of ripe bananas, there were two more: one worked against Tinea trychophytina, the fungus that causes athlete's foot, the other against the fungus that makes tomato plants wilt...