Word: funguses
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...Fungus infections of trunk, thighs, face, scalp. These may be red, white or various shades of brown, may produce temporary baldness...
...Young, who paid $8,500 down on a ten-room Hollywood house owned by Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel, longtime friend to bigtime gangsters, was sued by him for the balance of $85,000. She explained that the deal depended on Bugsy's eliminating all the house's "termites, fungus and dry rot." Her claim: "Siegel has refused to spend more than $250 for elimination of termites. It's going to cost a great deal more than that...
...discovery was made accidentally, in almost the same way as Dr. Alexander Fleming's finding of penicillin. The Buffalo researchers noticed a green fungus growing on a culture of tubercle bacilli stored in an icebox. The mold seemed to have an affinity for the tubercle germ; it did not grow well in any other medium. It produced a substance (not penicillin, which has been ineffective against tuberculosis) that checked the growth of tubercle bacilli. A preparation from the mold neutralized tuberculin in two hours...
...Smut. The war against wheat rust is at least as old as the ancient Egyptians. For 700 years the Romans propitiated a special god of stem rust, Robigo. But Elvin Stakman was one of the first to plumb the secrets of plant fungi growth. He discovered that every fungus contains a number of parasitic strains, and that a single fungus cell may produce thousands of varieties which look alike but differ in their plant tastes...
...peacetime manager of Baltimore's Station WFBR, and his staff of former commercial radiomen, the network at first had tough going. "Juice ants" fancied the insulation around the transmitter wiring and ate it, causing short circuits; microphones had to be blown out twice a day with bellows because fungus sprouted from them. AFRS's biggest single problem was getting receiving sets for its soldier audience. Furthermore, ordinary radio sets were good for only about four months' service before they succumbed to the tropics...