Word: fungus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, in West Germany's Bayer Institute for Experimental Pathology, other researchers read his reports on the drug's selective toxin. Directed by another Nobel Prizewinner, Professor Gerhard Domagk, the Germans took up where Waksman left off. Working with fungus cultures, they isolated actinomycin C, a new form of the original antibiotic...
...latest of many by which its maker, gangling (6 ft. 4), shy John Nash Ott Jr., 43, has developed a valuable new research tool for U.S. industry. Its name: "time-lapse" photography, i.e., film sequences taken at regular intervals to catch the actual growth of plants, flowers, fungus, etc. Ott first caught the public eye two years ago with the growth sequences he made for Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning Nature's Half Acre. Last week he had 20 cameras at work on a new sequence for Disney's followup, Secrets of Life-plus a contract...
Company lands now planted in bananas, African oil palms and other crops, as well as dairy pastures, planted mahogany forests and building sites, are exempt from expropriation. Thus the drastic seizure will not immediately end United Fruit's Guatemala operation. But eventually, as the inevitable "Panama disease" (a fungus that attacks the roots) sickens the banana lands, the company, deprived of its reserve tracts, will have to cut production. And United Fruit is on notice that further investment in Guatemala would be unwelcome-and unwise...
...want to apply glass-fiber coatings to their own boat bottoms. Though the cost of coating a 16-ft. hull (roughly 40? per square foot) may run as high as $50, the companies say one coating is sufficient, leaves boats with a leakproof bottom that defies such things as fungus, barnacles and dry rot in fresh and salt waters...
...then watched passively while a Jap guard pumped five bullets into the sergeant's stomach at a foot's range. At Pudu, each meal consisted of a handful of pasty rice sometimes crawling with weevils. Whenever he could get them, Author Braddon ate cats, dogs, snakes, grubs, fungus and leaves. He notes that "snake tastes like gritty chicken mixed with fish; dog tastes like rather coarse beef; cat like rabbit, only better." The camp had its rare saints, and one was the Anglican padre, Noel Duckworth. Putting on a winning smile, he would call to some brutish guard...