Word: pasteurization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army doctors discovered the organism of pneumonia (George Miller Sternberg, almost simultaneously with Pasteur in 1881), of tooth decay (Puerto Rican Major Fernando Emilio Rodriguez, 1921), trench fever, three types of dysentery...
Sponsor of the floss, and inventor of the machines for processing it, is mild, spectacled Dr. Boris Berkman, onetime director of the Pasteur Institute in Moscow, for 20 years a surgeon on the staff of Chicago's Grant Hospital. He discovered one value of milkweed during a study of soil erosion. Its root system allows it to thrive on soil that is worthless for other use, and it binds the soil instead of breaking it. One million pounds of the floss could be collected from wild growth on marginal land in Emmet County, Mich, alone...
Died. Dr. Alexandre Emile John Yersin, 79, Pasteur Institute bacteriologist, codiscoverer with Dr. Pierre Roux of diphtheria antitoxin; in Annan, French Indo-China. He was also codiscoverer of an antitoxin with which he fought the bubonic plague in China in the 'gos, in honor of him the Chinese raised temples...
American, British and French soldiers snapped to attention. A band played the Marseillaise, God Save the King, the Star-Spangled Banner. Slowly three men mounted the steps to the 30-ft. granite statue on the avenue Pasteur in Algiers. They laid wreaths of roses, chrysanthemums, carnations and tropical flowers on the slab supporting Lanowsky's figure of the Unknown Soldier. They saluted. Then they went off to lunch...
When chunky, fast-talking Dr. Neuwirth reached Iran last May to become medical adviser to the Government, swarms of Polish refugees from Russia were pouring into the country-unwashed, lousy, probably infected with typhus. Iranians feared an epidemic. At Teheran's Pasteur Institute, Dr. Neuwirth taught Iranian technicians to manufacture typhus vaccine by the new Cox egg-culture method.* Dr. Neuwirth vaccinated thousands of Iranians where typhus threatened, induced the Government to order compulsory vaccination of the whole army-some 200,000 soldiers. (No vaccine against typhus gives sure-fire protection, but vaccination helps...