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...need for growth. Consuming the pseudo-vitamin instead of the real, the bacteria fail to multiply, so that the blood's white corpuscles can easily destroy their limited numbers. How slight is the lethal error which the bacteria make is shown by the similar chemical names: sulfanilamide is para-amino-benzene-sulfonamide; the growth factor is para-amino-benzoic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Sulfa-Drugs Work | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

CORRX GAL. 9 WB Life on Guada CRN CORRX 1: Para-The following were no casualites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...CORRX 1: Para-Simultaneous Another raider group swept through

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Martin's audacious theory (already tested with rats and chicks) will be tested later this month on a volunteer group of Sing Sing convicts, who are now guinea-pigging the darkening effects of a B vitamin (para-amino-benzoic acid) on grey hair (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Let 'Em Eat Grass | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...that she was about 75 feet long. Santa Maria was "somewhat" but "not very much" bigger than the others, drew "not more than 6½ feet aft when loaded." But Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria were "well built, well rigged, well equipped and well manned. ..." Wrote Columbus: "Muy aptos para un semejante fecho-well suited for such an enterprise." Writes Author Morison: "Let us hear no more chatter about Columbus setting forth in 'tubs,' 'crates' or 'cockleshells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Enterprise | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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