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...Much of Europe's winter wheat had been destroyed by Europe's winter. He described some shocking contradictions in policy. Europe's soil was exhausted. And yet, Hoover charged, "we, including our Allies, have been as busy as bees destroying the capacity to manufacture fertilizers." German nitrogen and phosphoric acid plants were being dynamited because they could be converted to munitions manufacture. The world's total nitrogen production (2,600,000 tons) is more than 1,000,000 tons short of world requirements...
Chemically, ammonium nitrate is a salt, a combination of a base and an acid. But it is far from peaceful, as most other salts are. Instead of having a metal (e.g., sodium or iron) as the basic part of its molecule, it has an ammonium "radical" (one nitrogen atom and four hydrogen atoms) masquerading as a metal. Its acid part is also a radical: one nitrogen and three oxygen atoms (see chart...
Hodgkin's disease is a cancerlike swelling of the lymph nodes and lymphoid tissue, which exists throughout the body. The victims-often young people-live, on an average, for about 30 months after the disease takes hold. The accepted treatment at present is X rays or nitrogen mustard (TIME, Oct. 21). Both are palliatives, offer no hope of cure...
Mustard gas was a World War I terror. For World War II, chemists developed (but never used) a variation called "nitrogen mustard" (substituting nitrogen for sulphur). In studying defenses against the new product, they noticed that nitrogen mustard had a special affinity for cells that grow rapidly. Why not try it against cancer cells...
Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the University of Chicago group reported that of 54 patients, most got some relief: their fever and malaise disappeared, their tumors subsided, they gained weight, some went back to work. Nitrogen mustard sometimes worked after X rays had become ineffective. Best results were against incurable Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes. Although Hodgkin's is almost invariably fatal, one Chicago patient, a young commercial artist, has been kept in good working health for 33 months by periodic mustard treatments. Nitrogen mustard, the doctors warned...