Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assess the worth of these works in American terms it is not enough to apply ordinary standards of literary criticism. The war is the thing, and as one writer says: "It is better to be without literary criticism than without victory." The only fair test is to see whether writers have fulfilled their aims. According to the chairman of the Writers' Union, their aims are, first, "to tell the truth about the war," and second, "to feel the heart and soul of the Soviet...
...Alcohol. Some of the most expensive restaurants had bacteria counts as high as 4,800 to a cup (test is made by swabbing out a utensil with wet sterile cotton and culturing the swab). The maximum the law allows is 100. One drug store had 86,000 bacteria to a cup-no surprise to customers who have watched lunch-counter dishwashing with horrified fascination. Some New York City beer glasses, which usually get a split-second rinse in lukewarm water, had a count of 55,000, but in a survey of an unnamed city last year the Public Health Service...
News from Rahway. When the new drug was quietly announced two years ago by Drs. Selman Abraham Waksman and Harold Boyd Woodruff of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers, only its test-tube performance was known. The present excitement comes from mouse experiments last summer by research workers at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, at Rahway, N.J. (the drug has not yet been tried on people). The evidence...
...Streptothricin protects mice against 10,000 times the ordinary lethal dose of Salmonella schottmülleri (paratyphoid fever organism), Escherichia coli (colon bacillus) and Bacterium shigae (cause of Shiga dysentery). The drug's usefulness against typhoid bacteria has not yet been tested in mice, but it is effective against test-tube typhoid...
Actual mustering out will take place at Separation Centers in the U.S. Personnel officers to handle the "separating" are being trained at Fort Dix, N.J., where about 100 men a day are already being mustered out, in test runs. Eventually, Fort Dix expects to be able to handle 2,000 a day. Four other centers have been set up. By the time demobilization becomes a stampede, the Army hopes to have 18 centers...