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...synthetic penicillin in pure crystalline form. The most successful separation method used two liquids which do not mix. Since one dissolved penicillin more readily than the other, penicillin concentrated in it, leaving unwanted substances behind. The process had to be repeated again & again, but finally the biochemists got their pinch of brown crystals: the first pure man-made penicillin...
...nation began paying its pound of flesh last week for the steel and coal strikes. All over the country, the vise-tight pinch on steel and other metals began to shut down plants or curtail industrial production. Though U.S. industry was still far from capacity, production was already bumping the materials ceiling...
...Retrenchment. No one expected the pinch to loosen for at least six months. Even the normally optimistic CPA said: "The shortage in steel will last for 18 months or two years...
Penalties for Europe. Even the black markets felt the pinch. In many cities there was nothing under the counters as well as nothing on top of them. Many an animal sent for slaughter bypassed the major slaughter points at Kansas City, Omaha and Chicago, traveled on to local slaughterers in the East. In New York City, where at one time last week nine out of ten butcher shops were closed, OPA agents estimated that one in five of those doing any business was doing it at over-ceiling prices...
Wheels within Wheels. Tobin's orders set hundreds of trucks rolling again. They averted an immediate food shortage, saved hundreds of thousands of workers from layoffs in building and other industries. But by week's end the pinch applied by the three striking locals began to take effect. Two large food chains (A. & P., Safeway) closed their 730 stores; about 1,000 other such stores were nearly out of supplies...