Word: wabash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antibiotics industry has also produced spectacular ideas. Only a few years ago, Chas. Pfizer & Co. was dumping the residue of its streptomycin fermentation vats in the Wabash River. Then Pfizer and other antibiotics companies found that the residue contained vitamin B12, a powerful growth stimulant. Once, B-12 was extracted from animal livers for humans and sold for thousands of dollars an ounce. Now Pfizer sells the B-12-rich residue cheaply to feed companies, which put it into animal rations. Merck & Co. and others have synthesized gibberellic acid, which has a powerful growth-stimulating effect on plants. Minute traces...
National Guard Fights Wabash Flood...
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 12--An army of 100 National Guardsmen joined in a battle of the sandbags today in West Terre Haute, next major target of an historic Wabash River flood, which already has left 1,500 Indiana families homeless. One death was reported...
Never before has the U.S. scientist been so important to government and industry. But does that mean he never had it so good? Last week at Indiana's Wabash College, Norbert (Cybernetics) Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., flatly answered no. Politics aside, said he, the role the scientist now plays can seriously endanger his intellectual health...