Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April and just 250 times as much as a year ago. A small army of biochemists and mycologists had contributed to this achievement. Last week their leader told how it was done. Dr. Robert D. Coghill, of the U.S. Agriculture Department's Northern Regional Research Laboratory in Peoria, Ill., addressing chemists in Manhattan, reported that new methods developed in his laboratory had speeded up the making of penicillin 150-fold. The huge effort concentrated on penicillin-hundreds of scientists, 21 manufacturers, $20,000,000 in plants-has been concerned with one major problem: how to make the mold that...
Near San Vittore, 19 Germans held one U.S. prisoner, Billy Miller from Peoria, Ill. The 21-year-old doughboy (in civilian life a doughroller) made the Germans believe that they were surrounded, brought one Nazi lieutenant, 18 men, seven automatics, nine binoculars, one machine pistol back to the U.S. lines...
Federal Union in Peoria...
...days," your report says, "in a do-gooder atmosphere of maiden ladies, ministers, matrons, high-school students and professors, the Peoria convention drowsed...
Democratic discussion may seem inept and dreamy, but what counts are the results achieved in the end. Certainly those achieved at Peoria encourage faith in the democratic system for which Federal Union stands...