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Behind that peaceful boast, a miracle in production-for-war was being worked last week. Nine months from scratch-in just half the time normally necessary for production preliminaries-Universal assembled the first service models of a new military rifle...
Moreover, Henderson's order would force motormakers to get out and scratch for defense orders, especially work to which their plants can be converted and their workers and engineers transferred. So far Detroit has kept its defense work at arm's length from its auto work. If the engineering talent in Detroit (best in the world) is not allowed to work on passenger cars it will have to work on new business-i.e., defense business. This would be a shot in the arm for U.S. ordnance technology...
Japanese textile factories operate at 40% of capacity. Staple-fiber-a species of rayon made of wood fiber-kimonos (which fall apart after several washings), staple-fiber suits (that curl up in the rain), staple-fiber diapers (that scratch babies' bottoms) have replaced the old fabrics; and even these are rationed...
Standard hay-fever treatment is complicated, long-drawn-out, expensive and-in almost half the cases-no good. First a patient must be given a score of scratch tests on his arm to find out what pollens or other proteins poison him. Then for several months he must take a course of "desensitizing" injections to accustom him to growing doses of those irritants. Sometimes the injections give patients all the uncomfortable symptoms of asthma...
...Elsbach's treatment short-cuts all this. He uses a specially prepared salt solution of organic substances produced by the ordinary Bacillus coli, found in human intestines. No scratch tests are necessary, for the Coli Metabolin acts on all forms of hay fever. Somehow the compound has a tonic effect on the irritated sympathetic nervous system. Treatment consists of eight to twelve injections; the first five injections are given daily, the rest every other day. Said Dr. Elsbach: "Treatment before the onset of hay fever is not necessary but should be started when the first symptoms appear. A marked...