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Sweet Clover. The remarkable drug known as dicoumarin may even reduce to zero the 6% of post-operative deaths caused by thrombi (fixed blood clots) and emboli (wandering blood clots). Dicoumarin is found in spoiled sweet clover, was originally tracked down as a poison which causes hemorrhages in cows, is now synthesized...
Dean Donham praises President Conant's heavy concentration in chemistry as an undergraduate. As a result, President Conant passed his Ph.D. in two years. Agreed, this was excellent training for a professional chemist. But the reason that James B. Conant devoted several years to the study of poison gas rather than something more productive can be blamed on the many men throughout the world with the same idea as Dean Donham--the idea that it is not the duty of colleges to help men think their way through a difficult world by a process of mental development and broad acquaintanceship...
...Navy grew. When Hein ter Poorten took command last October he had around 100,000 soldiers. Motorization was speeding along. Artillery, another Ter Poorten specialty, was heavily increased. For defense against the inevitable attack, oil wells were mined. Around airfields and open spaces were set poles tipped with poison which slant-eyed Malayans constantly renewed...
...himself he reached north into Manchuria for his supplies against the great war, then crept down China's coast toward Hong Kong. The fearful Dutch did more than the rest of the world to get ready. Dutch diplomacy, dedicated to the proposition that oil to the enemy is poison to the giver, slapped down Japanese demands with no fear of offending Japanese sensibilities. No longer an active pilot, Hein ter Poorten bought airplanes, Martin bombers, Curtiss pursuits, Ryan trainers. The Netherlands East Indies worked to build up an air force...
...Sulfamic acid, for 60 years a mere laboratory curiosity, is now being produced on an industrial scale and used widely. Du Pont Chemists Martin Eli Cupery and Wallace Emerson Gordon announced that the sulfamates are excellent flameproofing agents for paper and fabric. Ammonium sulfamate sprays will kill ragweed, poison ivy and other noxious plants...