Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mark of the successful down-east trader. Across the desk he is deliberate and exceedingly mild in mien and expression. This softness of speech must not be taken for timidity, as a generation of Crimson candidates will testify. But Durant is no legendary tyro out of the Copey mold. Rather he is a businessman-engineer working at the earth-bound business of maintaining Harvard's wealth of real facilities...
...professor with a scientific slouch, a strong French accent and gestures. He came to the U.S. in 1924, at Rutgers completed the training he began in Paris. The TB culture may or may not be his greatest achievement: his discovery (in 1937) of gramicidin, first of the germ-killing mold extracts, led to the development of penicillin. His latest find, he hopes, will lure young doctors into TB research, hitherto shunned because "the chances of finding something have been practically...
Pfizer began producing other chemicals by fermentation (oxalic acid, gluconic acid, sorbose). Thus, when the Government launched a top-secret program in 1943 to get penicillin mold produced in large quantities, Pfizer was one of the companies chosen for the job. Many chemists doubted that it could be done. But Pfizer President George A. Anderson, now Board Chairman, risked $3 million of Pfizer cash to build a new plant, was the first to mass-produce penicillin...
What did worry Moore was the paucity of information about the 20th Century's most potent germ destroyer. Though the molecular structure of the mold extract had been virtually solved, chemists were still unable to synthesize it. The discovery of four types hinted that there might be more. Recent research indicated that the very impurities which manufacturers had striven to eliminate might be responsible for some of the drug's efficacy. Why, no one knows. Could penicillin ultimately be broken into its component parts-each a remedy for a specific infection? Again, no one knows...
...jungle room, damp and hot, where test materials can be infected with fungi and mold...