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...only weapon against these inoperable cancers and were effective in only a few types of cases. In the last five years, Boston's Dr. Sidney Farber and a team of assistants have been getting encouraging results with new drugs. One of the first to show promise was nitrogen mustard (a deadly poison developed in World War II for chemical warfare). Newer and better, Dr. Farber believes, are the awkwardly named "folk acid antagonists." These, like ACTH and cortisone, are most often effective against the leukemias...
Back on the Farm. "Jimmy," for whom the clinic and research building was named, is a New England farm boy. When he first saw Dr. Farber, the diagnosis was dismal: lymph-node cancer. Previous results with nitrogen mustard had been spotty, so Jimmy got three (out of the seven) folic acid antagonists. Today he is back doing chores on the family farm and feeling fine. His cancer shows no sign of activity...
...American Cyanamid Co. got a fast tax write-off from the DPA for a new $47 million nitrogen-compounds plant to be built near Avondale, La., a few miles outside of New Orleans...
Last week C.C.A. President Howard A. Cowden told the delegates about the biggest project ever undertaken by an American coop. To help ease the fertilizer shortage, C.C.A. will build a $16 million nitrogen plant at Lawrence, Kans. with $6,000,000 borrowed from C.C.A. members and the rest from the RFC. C.C.A. will also build a 5,000-barrel-a-day catalytic cracker for its refinery at Phillipsburg, Kans., open $1,000,000 worth of lumber kilns at its mill in Swisshome...
...steel mill at Inchon and the spinning works at Yongdungpo are heaps of blasted machinery. In Pusan, Korea's largest spinning mill is starved of electric power. The once-flourishing coal mines at Yongwol are silent relics. In North Korea, U.S. bombers have smashed a nitrogen plant at Hungnam, the oil refinery at Wonsan, marshaling yards at Sinuiju...