Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professors Alexander Fleming and Howard W. Florey (TIME, May 15), were knighted by King George VI. Sir Howard reported progress toward chemical synthesis of the drug. In the U.S. the available supply for civilians was doubled: penicillin was shipped to 1,000 more hospitals, including some in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands. But the biggest news was on the production front. In May, U.S. plants made 100 billion units of penicillin - one-third more than in April and just 250 times as much as a year ago. A small army of biochemists and mycologists had contributed to this...
...first victory. At his own first press conference (with drinks from the pantry-bar in his four-story Harlem house) Dr. Powell said: "I will represent the Negro first, and all other Americans next." Quickly Sara Speaks, who knows that there are also about 31,000 Irish, Italians, Puerto Ricans and Spaniards in the new district, said: "My major concern will be for all of the people of my district...
...Their prime weapon was the Adcock Direction Finder (built and perfected by Sterling and his men), which has a long antenna on a 40-ft. tower and gives the approximate point of origin of any radio signal. RID now has 30-odd Adcocks in the U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico...
...graces of the art of design were fittingly embodied last week when Miss Elena Davila (see cut) won Columbia University's twelfth annual medal for social architecture. The competition subject was a recreation-area shelter. Born in Puerto Rico, Miss Davila studied at Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill Academy, is an equestrian and stamp collector, a skillful photographer, an enthusiastic dancer in the Spanish manner. Her father, an alumnus of M.I.T., is Lieut. Commander Jorge V. Davila, U.S.N.R., now on duty in Puerto Rico...
...week of fun, sightseeing and a competition to choose the likeliest boy & girl scientists in the U.S. They were finalists in the third annual science talent search run by the news agency Science Service. They had tea in the White House with Eleanor Roosevelt before she went off to Puerto Rico. They chatted with Vice President Wallace, hobnobbed with eminent elder scientists, swarmed irreverently through the halls of Congress and the endless corridors of the Pentagon...