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...young Texas oil millionaire who is pumping much of his fortune into three scientific research foundations. One of the foundations has worked out a new construction technique which Slick thinks might revolutionize the building industry; another has figured out a new method of artificial insemination which will permit scrub cattle to give birth to purebreds. All Texans-from college presidents to cattlemen-took their abundant energy and confidence for granted. Dallas Banker Bob Thornton had an explanation for it. Said he: "Energy is mostly habit. Take the way people in Dallas walk. Why, in St. Louis I trip over everybody...
...likely to grow. Chloromycetin, announced in October 1947, is the first drug to work against typhoid fever (TIME, July 12), has proved effective against a steadily mounting list of diseases. Like aureomycin, it works against the group of diseases caused by the tiny organisms called rickettsiae, including typhus fever, scrub typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. In a few cases it has worked against primary atypical ("virus") pneumonia...
These ova are artificially inseminated in the pedigreed cow. Then they are removed from the ovaries, through an incision in the flank, and transplanted, through the flank, to scrub foster mothers...
...Essar Ranch near San Antonio, an intense young scientist is operating on a partially anesthetized cow. He injects a local anesthetic into a shaved area on the flank, swabs it with alcohol and makes an incision. Ten minutes later he sews up the incision. The cow is only a scrub from the range of a nearby rancher-but if all goes well she will bear a calf which has two pedigreed parents...
Quality. No matter how purebred the bull used for insemination (natural or artificial), it has always taken a purebred cow to produce a purebred calf. Scrub cows would produce half-breeds of unpredictable value. At Purdue University in 1941, Ray Umbaugh got the idea of carrying artificial insemination a step further. He asked himself: Why not transplant ova from pedigreed cows to scrubs...