Word: scab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike were 209 union printers, who walked out of their cluttered composing rooms at the Star and Hearst's morning Post-Intelligencer, their spick-&-span one at the Times, demanding a $2.95 a day raise. In the old days publishers had met such crises by hustling scab compositors into town, and paying reporters extra to double in linotyping. This time, they shut down...
...used as a surface dressing for burns. It can be impregnated with sulfa drugs or penicillin, will stay pliant and moist while the wound is still raw, so that removing it is not painful. When the wound has healed, the plastic dries and drops off like a scab...
...From Scab to Smut. The war against wheat rust is at least as old as the ancient Egyptians. For 700 years the Romans propitiated a special god of stem rust, Robigo. But Elvin Stakman was one of the first to plumb the secrets of plant fungi growth. He discovered that every fungus contains a number of parasitic strains, and that a single fungus cell may produce thousands of varieties which look alike but differ in their plant tastes...
...example, when Marquis wheat was introduced, it stood off stem rusts but developed "head blighter scab"; Durham wheat overcame scab but succumbed to root rot. Kota, the next wheat hope, yielded to smut. Stakman, collaborating with the Department of Agriculture, has developed hardier & hardier wheat. But No. 56 has baffled him for 16 years...
Captain Kern and his helpers, who have handled 360 burn cases aboard a hospital ship, do not believe in tannic acid for burns-it forms a loose, crusty scab under which infection often develops. All they used on the young fireman was sulfathiazole ointment and rather tight bandages. The tightness slowed the oozing of blood serum into injured tissues, thus reducing shock. A month after he was burned, the sailor's wounds were healthy and pinch grafts were laid on his deepest burns. The patient, almost unscarred, is now back on duty...