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...summer and fall casualties in Southern Army posts. The dried, crushed leaves are soaked in pure alcohol until it turns an intense green. This solution is then filtered, put up in 50 cc. (1⅔ oz.) bottles and shipped to Army camps throughout the Fourth Service Command (the Southeastern...
...chemist for a New Jersey flavoring-extract firm, has already brewed 50,000 cc. of the poison-ivy inoculant-enough for half a million injections. But the extract is not his invention. It was developed by Colonel Sanford Williams French, a longtime Army doctor who commands the medical branch of the Fourth Service Command. French, one of the 40% of mankind who are relatively immune to poison ivy, can safely gather the plant barehanded. Sergeant Shapiro cannot. Paradoxically, he is one of the few individuals on whom the poison-ivy extract will not work. He has suffered five poison...
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Global Secret? This apparently belated arrival at vital decisions looked bad for General George Catlett Marshall, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, and others in the U.S. high command. In fact, such delay seemed to confirm what many responsible men, at the key controls of the U.S. arsenal, had been saying: that the military, up to last week, had simply lacked any real strategy, any real grasp of the global war, any real plan for winning...
Upon this conception of their global policy, General Marshall and the U.S. Army command were willing to stand last week...