Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ruhr, driving along the Rhine at twilight, one sees the sky greyed with smoke from hundreds of factory chimneys. But just as one begins to marvel at the normal pace of the Ruhr's industrial life, one passes a great broken Rhine bridge whose gashed ends point aimlessly into...
...toyed with an unlit cigar, crumpled a handkerchief, and looked out across his rolling pastures. Then he said: "Roosevelt trusted me. He believed that Brazil should be a great country. A strong Brazil would make a strong ally-a good customer. We were right when we had that point of view...
...they had to be grown, slowly and tediously, from molds. Last week Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co. made a dramatic announcement: the first practical synthetic production of an important antibiotic, chloromycetin. The process means that chloromycetin will be quickly and cheaply available for any doctor. It may also point the way to mass production of other antibiotics...
...called the dean of U.S. researchers in antibiotics, was born of Jewish parents in Priluki, a Russian peasant village near Kiev. He came to the U.S. at 22. In 1915 he got a job as research assistant at the experiment station and began working with soil microorganisms, the starting point of the antibiotics. In 1939 he began studying the relation of the soil organisms to disease. He still keeps in his littered desk samples of the first antibiotic he isolated, in 1940. Called actinomycin, it proved too poisonous for clinical use. But he went on to find others...
British readers, who are used to the journalistic trick of printing two stories to get around the English law, got the point. So did Scotland Yard. It warned the Mirror and other London editors to watch what they were saying. Next day the Mirror took another chance; it told readers that the "vampire killer" -not identified-had been caught...