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...prolong penicillin's stay in the blood, Army Captain Monroe James Romansky and Technician (4th Grade) George E. Rittman suspend the drug in a mixture of beeswax and peanut oil and inject it into a muscle. They find that the suspension maintains a good level in the blood for six or seven hours after injection and keeps appearing in the urine up to 32 hours. The drug is extracted from the urine with banana oil, from the banana oil with a special phosphate solution...
...Redoubtable Warrior." Arthur Coningham is over six feet tall, and built to scale. Sleek, urbane, convivial, popular, he does not smoke, drinks practically nothing (an occasional sherry, gin-&-bitters or small whiskey with meals). Win ston Churchill once referred to him as "no mere technician but a redoubtable warrior...
...himself. But to the Army they were no symbols of confidence. And so as a new Chief of the Army General Staff, the Führer chose a different sort of man. He was neither an all-out Nazi nor an old-line Prussian officer, but an adroit military technician, with links to both camps. He was Colonel General Heinz Guderian (rhymes with agrarian), the Wehrmacht's No. 1 tank general, the kind of officer (Hitler hoped) who would not break, no matter how sure was defeat, how dismal the amateur attempts of the Party high command to stave...
...plant construction and speeded up the synthetic program. To help him, Rubber Boss Dewey had a good team: Plant Construction Chief William E. O'Brien and a staff of 35 crack engineers; U.S. Rubber's Lucius D. Tompkins, operations chief; Firestone's E. B. Babcock, top technician; and M.I.T.'s Professor Edwin Richard Gilliland, research director...
...would base his international organization on regional as well as national representation, and he would have certain designated regions do their own policing. In all of this blueprint organizational work, readers may wonder where the ultimate power of coercion is to rest. Mr. Welles is above all a diplomatic technician; nevertheless, he admits that no international organization can survive unless it is supported by the opinion of free men & women throughout the world-which tosses the ball back to the moralists and the philosophers...