Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question most often asked of us-and the hardest to answer-is how TIME gets out each week. This process is, inevitably, an extremely complicated one. Below is the Art Department's attempt to answer the question. Probably no two people at TIME would agree with this flow chart in every detail, but I think that it does hit the high spots...
...location in Durango, Colo., Cinemactress Anne Baxter panned for gold in the Las Animas River, found none, but lost her gold wedding ring in the process...
...month period, from the bile of slaughtered oxen (40 head are required for a single daily dose). Merck & Co., who make it, produce only about 1½ ounces a week. Acutely conscious of the desperate demand, research chemists have been plugging away at the problem, trying to speed the process and eventually mass-produce the drug...
...supply from other sources." In the Merck laboratories, the Strophanthus product, sarmentogenin (first isolated in 1915), had already been carefully considered. The synthesis of cortisone from sarmentogenin, a spokesman said, would be "an extremely difficult matter." Its chemical structure is similar to the 17th intermediary product in the current process, he admitted, but that similarity by no means assures that the end-product after further processing will be identical. So far no sarmentogenin, the product of the African plant, has ever been fully processed into cortisone...
...drive for a large-scale production process of some sort would go on, but even at best arthritis victims probably faced years of painful waiting...