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Last spring, young Dr. Lefft tried to find a natural body substance that would be harmless to the brain, make clear X-rays possible. After several tries, he hit on Di-odotryosine, a white odorless powder of an iodine compound normally found in the thyroid. Dr. Lefft mixed the powder with ordinary gelatine, tried it first on cats and dogs. Later he and Dr. MacLean used it on 44 patients with excellent results. The new substance, said Dr. Lefft, can also be used for X-rays of lungs, uterus, other abdominal organs...
...order was designed to relieve not only a looming smokeless powder shortage, but the sugar scare (see p. 70). Most ethyl alcohol is normally made from molasses, a by-product of sugar. To increase their production, however, the regular alcohol makers have recently been using not just blackstrap molasses but whole cane syrup (high-test molasses), thus cutting into the sugar supply...
...last week ordered U.S. distillers to stop making neutral spirits for beverages on Jan. 15, start running off industrial alcohol. In a shooting war, when every 16-in. gun blast burns up 60 gal. of alcohol in its powder, the U.S. needs alcohol more than liquor...
...liquor companies have already helped the regular industrial alcohol makers by taking contracts for 76,000,000 gal.* of alcohol for powder (TIME, Oct. 13). Now they will make another 114,000,000 gal., boost total U.S. industrial alcohol output to around 500,000,000 gal., the highest ever. Unless Army & Navy consumption of powder exceeds all estimates, the distillers alone will soon make enough alcohol to slake the thirst of the guns. Then the regular industrial alcohol makers can go back to their normal customers (plastics, paints, chemicals...
...fast. Early last month four freight cars bulging with corn rolled up to National Distillers' big Carthage distillery in Cincinnati. Less than 96 hours later this corn was alcohol gurgling into a waiting railroad tank car; 48 hours later the alcohol was being piped into an Indiana powder plant...