Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stoop over, have 3,660 Ib. attached to back, straighten...
Supplies of opium and quinine are shrinking so rapidly that the Government has stored three years' supply of each in the vaults of the Treasury Building in Washington. Opium is perhaps the most important drug used by doctors. Formerly, the U.S. imported over 150,000 Ib. of opium a year from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Germany; opium poppies are not commercially grown at all in the U.S. Quinine, a specific for malaria, comes from the bark of cinchona trees in the Dutch East Indies; no substitute is quite so good. Other dwindling drugs: ^ Belladonna, made from the deadly nightshade, was formerly...
...difficult drugs to manufacture: foxglove leaves, which contain the drug, begin to deteriorate as soon as they are separated from the plant, must be dried at once at high temperatures, then powdered. There are foxglove farms in about ten places in the northern U.S., capable of producing 1,000 Ib. an acre...
...Ergot, a fungus which grows in rye kernels, contains a score of medicinal factors. It is used mostly to start contractions of the uterus at childbirth. The fungus is difficult to separate from rye husks, is expensive to produce. Most of it came from Europe. About 20,000 Ib. were produced in the Middle West last year...
Though allowed to buy food, chubby Correspondent Allen lost 38 Ib. - for the first time in ten years his ribs showed faintly. He was also put through a farcical examination by an SS man from Paris, who accused him of being an agent of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. His diary was taken away on the last day. When he pointed out that it contained only the Nazi propaganda effusions, he was told gloomily that they considered it "too late" for propaganda...