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...more casualties from the gas than from the bombs. A gas alarm was sounded in Germany for the first time. Darmstadt's population was told that Americans had dropped gas bombs. Several days later, when a thick sulphurous cloud still hovered over the city, the Germans had to retract this story...
...Yale's Laboratory of Physiology, Dr. de Rezende developed a simpler glue: a solution of gum acacia (fortified with vitamin B). But despite this glue, he noted that a severed nerve tends to retract both ways so that connection of the ends is still difficult. This tension can be avoided, Dr. de Rezende found, by inserting a nerve graft between the severed ends. On the legs of monkeys, rabbits and dogs he performed some 60 nerve-grafting operations, taking his grafts from dead animals of the same species. Nearly half his operations he termed successful: the animals regained good...
...Daily Northwestern" has resumed its normal coverage; student indignation over an absurd policy which made their newspaper about as current as a 1920 Sears-Roebuck catalogue forced the University and the Board of Publications to retract their ruling. But bad taste and mutual distrust have remained...
Sirs: TIME, Dec. 8: "Everything was ready. From Rangoon to Honolulu, every man was at battle station. . . ." TIME evidently "erred" in this article and the writer trusts that you will retract this statement in an early issue. . . . ALLISON F. KELSEY Gunner, U.S. Navy, 1918 Montclair...
Materials & Men. The shortages which sprang from U.S. soil in 1941 like armed men from dragon's teeth took most businessmen by surprise. Ed Stettinius got his surprise as early as February, when the vast expansion of the plane program forced him to retract his previous reassurances and put aluminum, as well as machine tools, under the first full mandatory priorities. By year's end the defense demand had also elbowed civilian demand out of the market for copper, brass, nickel, tungsten, zinc, magnesium, tin, and even steel...