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...Many bacteria need another B factor, pantothenic acid, to thrive. So Bacteriologist Henry McIlwain of Sheffield, England, reasoned that bacteria might likewise mistake a compound called pantoyltaurine for its chemical relative, pantothenic acid. His hunch was right, and his discovery may well lead to development of a second group of bacteria-hoaxing chemicals comparable to the sulfa-group...
...desperate rubber shortage forced Borden's, Sheffield and other big distributors to agree on a plan for pooling milk routes in the New York City area. Deliveries will be cut to every other...
Instead of the 5.6? a quart which he now gets for fluid milk from big milk distributors like Sheffield Farms and Borden's, the farmer would get over 10?. Much of this rise would be passed on to the public, even if the distributors absorbed part of it. The price the housewife pays for milk (delivered) might jump from 15½? a quart...
...Once again choosing a railroader to direct its affairs, Western Union elected Albert Nathaniel Williams, president of the Lehigh Valley, as successor to ex-Railroader Roy Barton White, who has knocked off the "ex" by accepting the presidency of Baltimore & Ohio. A rodman at 16 and a graduate of Sheffield Scientific School, Williams takes over Western Union at a time when a merger with Postal has been verbally approved by all interested parties except labor and Western Union...
...bombed churches in England and Wales through March 21: 714 destroyed or seriously damaged (including 287 Anglican, 123 Congregational, 118 Methodist, 58 Roman Catholic, 17 Presbyterian); 1,945 others damaged (1,100 Anglican, 448 Methodist, 135 Roman Catholic, 106 Baptist, 98 Congregational, 18 Presbyterian). Six cathedrals (Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Rochester, Canterbury, Westminster) and Westminster Abbey have been struck and one cathedral (Coventry) destroyed...