Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Fortresses from Italy, with Lieut. Gen. Ira Eaker riding along, made history by bombing Rumanian targets and then going on into Russia, where they landed at bases arranged at the Teheran Conference. Last week they made more history by running off the first U.S. bombing raid from Russian soil-a heavy strike at the Rumanian Danube port of Galati...
...huge effort concentrated on penicillin-hundreds of scientists, 21 manufacturers, $20,000,000 in plants-has been concerned with one major problem: how to make the mold that produces penicillin yield more heavily. This delicate process has more hazards than an obstacle race. The penicillium mold, found in fertile soil, is cultivated in a sugary solution. It develops a network of very fine branches, *called "mycelium," which secrete penicillin. If the delicate mycelium breaks, production of penicillin stops. Temperature must be kept at 24°C. Worst of all hazards is contamination. The sugary bath in which the mold grows...
...Then Chiang will rule "New China" - a nation that confidently sees herself as the future "mistress of Asia." But neither Japan's defeat nor a vast in crement of territory will solve China's domestic problems. Four out of five Chi nese depend upon the soil they till. Of China's 360,000,000 farmers, 200,000,000 do not own the land they cultivate; only one-fourth are able to make ends meet...
Hugh M. Raup, assistant professor of Plant Ecology; Karl Terzaghi, lecturer on Soil Mechanics; Karl Victor, professor of German Literature; and Edgar B. Wilson, Jr., associate professor Chemistry...
Many and varied are the units under Colonel Purdon's military control, for he is Commandant of Army Training Schools--Soil Control, Chaplain's Corps, and Air Forces Statistical--as well as Commanding Officer of the ASTP program her and Professor of Military Science and Tactics...