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George Galiowhur's peacetime business was founded on the fact that people get sunburned-his Skol outsold all other anti-burn lotions. His war business (except for Sunstill) is founded upon two other equally factual premises: 1) people get bitten by insects; 2) fabrics are attacked by mildew, mold...
Plants and Processes. Penicillin is scarce because the only way it is being made commercially is by the extremely slow growth of a mold similar to a cheese mold. But plans for expanded manufacturing facilities and experiments on new processes hold out hope for an increase in the supply. In recent months the leading producers have increased their output more than tenfold. Last week Commercial Sol vents Corp. and Winthrop Chemical Co. announced that they were building big new penicillin plants...
...hope for increased production is a new and speedier mold process developed by Stanford University's Bacteriologist Charles E. Clifton. Suggested by the method of making vinegar by dripping alcohol through wood shavings inoculated with bacteria, Clifton's laboratory experiments show that penicillin can be made by dribbling a mold-growing solution through shavings inoculated with the mold. In the present commercial process the mold grows in jars without mechanical help. Clifton's process would result in continuous production...
...postwar food policy was setting in a realistic mold. Gone were thoughts of worldwide bread lines or an international WPA. The new principles...
...thin to support a minimum human intelligence. Look at all the individual talents, as inimitable and irreplaceable as thumbprints, which had been turned into just so many highly decorative zombies. "Hollywood," she told the press, "has a queer way of taking an individual and fitting her into the American mold. I have worked hard to develop my style and I don't want anything to do with bathing suits and plucked eyebrows...