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...disposal plants should give a healthy boost to a drugmaker whose diversification (Aralen, Novocain, Dr. Lyons Tooth Powder, Molle Shave Cream, Energine lighter and cleaning fluid, textile and printing dyes, etc.) has already carried it far beyond the drug field. As a result, income last year topped $200 million for the first time in Sterling's 59-year history, with profits of $19 million ($2.42 a share...
...rush assignment from the OSS: the allies needed an explosive that could be used for sabotage work in Europe and the Far East; it had to be easy to carry, innocent in appearance. Kistiakowsky's imaginative product was an explosive that looked like flour. Dubbed "Aunt Jemima," the powder could be transported as flour or dough, even baked and carried around in cake and cookie form. To prove that it was not toxic, K. assembled skeptical military officials, baked his "Aunt Jemima," finished with a flourish by eating one of his small cakes...
...when we touched the powder...
...become "heroic," his bosses maneuver a neat fix: Angelo must be killed and enshrined as a national martyr. Instead, in a duel, innocent Angelo spits his enemy through the gizzard and continues to thrive. His bosses keep on hoping, when he is ordered to blow up an Austrian powder store and burn the fodder of the enemy cavalry. Instead of perishing superbly in the attempt, Angelo just does the job very efficiently-and comes prancing back for more, as insatiable for adventure as Don Quixote, as indestructible as the comic hero of an old one-reeler...
...American and the Japanese are like Cain and Abel in the primeval jungle of human conscience. Quicksand sucks down the American; the Japanese hauls him out. When gangrene threatens the Japanese, the American pours his only packet of sulfa powder into the ugly leg wound. The pair learn each other's names-Alvin and Kimura. When Alvin moons about his girl in Sedalia, Mo., Kimura mimes the death of his wife in an air raid. In such scenes, Actor Hayakawa makes Kimura grow wordlessly in stature and sympathy. Actor Piazza cannot prevent poor, blathering Alvin from being a bore...