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...Moscow is not going to make the mistake that Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan made. They were supported . . . only by fractional economies. Stalin will never attack . . . unless war comes about by an accident of the powder keg variety . . . until he is certain there has been gathered under the iron fists of the Kremlin that amount of material, human organized military strength, that he believes will bring ultimate victory . . . All this means that we have some time, because they do not feel ready yet to challenge us in this final fashion. But it means also that . . . we must at once find...
...sweeps along, the Missouri gathers the waters of one tributary after another: the Sun, Teton, Judith, Marias, Musselshell, Milk, Yellowstone (fed, in turn, by the Bighorn, Greybull, Shoshone, Tongue and Powder), the Little Missouri, Knife, Heart, Cannonball, Grand, Moreau, Belle Fourche, Cheyenne, Bad, White, Big Sioux, James, Niobrara, Elkhorn, Platte, Little Sioux, Nishnabotna, Kansas (made up of the Republican, Solomon, Saline, Smoky Hill and Blue), the Grand, Chariton, Osage and Gasconade...
...likes to be called Pete) failed to account for $19 million in funds credited to his name in U.S. banks. Early this year, when his government sued in a Washington, D.C. federal court for an accounting and the return of any unspent money, Mow took a powder (TIME, March 10). His lawyer admitted that Mow had gone across the border to Mexico...
...hundreds of gallons of a solvent liquid with which the bile acid goes through its first reaction in its long, tedious process toward cortisone. Within hours this reaction is complete and a precipitant is added, causing Intermediate Compound No. 1 to separate from the solution as a white powder...
...housewife's spin-dryer) at the far end of the 100,000-sq. ft. production area. A label on the wall proclaims: "KE Pure" (KE is Merck's intramural abbreviation for cortisone). The bottom and sides of the centrifuge are thickly coated with a clammy white powder. From the looks of it, it might be talcum or aspirin. But it is far more precious: 35 lbs. of KE pure is enough to make 635,000 tablets of 25 milligrams each, enough to supply more than 300,000 patients for a day on average doses...