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Death by Bottle. These were CWS's everyday jobs. It was in another phase of its work that CWS explored a nightmare region: bacterial war. In a report to the War Department prepared by Special -Consultant George W. Merck, CWS was carefully inexplicit. CWS had developed improved laboratory techniques for the production and study of microorganisms, methods for detecting and controlling disease, protective clothing and equipment. But there was evidence that the danger of a bacteria-charged attack was no fantasy, that the U.S. was ready to thwart any enemy efforts*-and retaliate in kind...
...drug was quietly announced two years ago by Drs. Selman Abraham Waksman and Harold Boyd Woodruff of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers, only its test-tube performance was known. The present excitement comes from mouse experiments last summer by research workers at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, at Rahway, N.J. (the drug has not yet been tried on people). The evidence...
...Florey ended on the discouraging, realistic note that "penicillin is as yet available in only the smallest quantities." The A.M.A. gave a similar warning last week to U.S. doctors: though Merck & Co., E. R. Squibb & Sons, Charles Pfizer & Co and the Lederle Laboratories are all making penicillin, "in no instance has production advanced beyond the pilot-plant stage," and supplies for civilian use will be "exceedingly limited." The Army recently tried penicillin on a few veterans from the Pacific suffering from compound fractures, osteomyelitis and wound infections. First results were so good that the Medical Corps will soon extend trials...
With quinine imports from the Orient shut off, Winthrop contracted with Merck & Co., Inc. to manufacture atabrine (TIME, April 27). Present production of the two firms is 500 million tablets, enough for 33 million cases of malaria. But both could produce several hundred million more in case of need...
Throughout Latin America, the blacklist meant an uprooting of long-established commercial relations. Great German firms like Agfa, Bayer and Merck Chemicals, Siemens and A.E.G. (German General Electric), Carl Zeiss (cameras), Condor and Lufthansa air lines were on the list. So were lesser German and Italian firms, some innocent neutrals and Americans...