Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insisted that only government intervention can solve certain production problems. Private enterprise, Thomas explained, cannot handle such projects as flood control reforestation, and soil reclamation which are necessary to increase food production...
...Benjamin Minge Duggar made the greatest discovery of his career. For two years he and his associates at Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River, N.Y. had been studying bits of soil from all parts of the U.S. Dr. Duggar, who retired in 1943 as professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin, was looking for a new antibiotic to place beside the two best known, penicillin and streptomycin...
After isolating 3,400 strains from 600 samples of soil, Dr. Duggar found one in 1945 that looked promising. Because it was a golden yellow color, it was called aureomycin. More than two years of careful testing in the laboratory followed. About a year ago, aureomycin was first used to treat human beings. Results were good. By last week aureomycin had taken its place as a standard medicine...
This week Lederle doctors report claims of success in treating whooping cough and tularemia (rabbit fever). Dr. Duggar is still busy at the work he loves. He has some 200 new samples of soil, is looking for still another antibiotic...
...grey-fringed, stood on the stage in front of Werner Janssen's* Portland Symphony Orchestra and began with a speech. Gesturing and stomping, he explained that America was written for all the people, "not just for the intelligentsia and the snobs." It was the story of America: the soil, the Indians, the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, hours of joy, hours of sorrow, the present and the future...