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...William S. Guthrie quoted figures designed to show that there was a growing shortage of doctors. In 1905 and in 1949, he said, the number of medical students in the U.S. was almost the same-though the population had all but doubled. Guthrie contended that the World War II speedup in medical colleges should be continued...
Even so, many a corporation is still not convinced. Some have tried profit sharing and dropped it because there was no appreciable improvement in worker morale or efficiency. Many unionists also oppose such plans, fearing that they will lead to the speedup. To that the council replies: not so. Profit sharing simply eliminates waste and carelessness. Said Clarence Wimpfheimer: "It is not a method of chiseling wages down. You establish a decent basic wage, and you put the profit sharing on top of that...
...that shock and infection have been brought under control by science, thromboembolism* has replaced them as the principal cause of death after operations, reported Dr. Alton Ochsner of Tulane. Because of the clotting speedup, he said, the "almost routine administration of antibiotics to all hospital patients" has become a major factor in the increase in cases of thromboembolism...
...corked. The bottles are stacked on their sides for two or three years, then restacked cork down. Daily, an expert workman grasps and shakes each bottle, thus precipitating the sediment onto the cork. Five or more years after the date of vintage, the bottle is recorked for shipment. Speedup methods have long been used by American companies. The trick consists largely in maintaining vat temperature at 70° F., thereby stimulating the action of tiny, funguslike organisms known as saccharomycetes, which cause fermentation...
Some penicillin treatments now in use for syphilis and gonorrhea: require as many as 100 consecutive injections over a period of eight days, use from 2,000,000 to 9,000,000 units of the drug. Secret of the speedup and increased effectiveness of the new penicillin treatment, still in the experimental stage: the drug is dissolved in oil with 2% aluminum monostearate. The process coats the penicillin particles, which are ordinarily absorbed in the bloodstream within two to four hours, and keeps them at work for 72 hours...