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...session of the American Public Health Association's meeting in Manhattan heard the Public Health Service's Dr. John F. Mahoney announce that penicillin had apparently cured four cases of early syphilis. The penicillin treatment lasted eight days. The standard treatment takes 18 months. (The one-and five-day treatments with artificial fever and drugs, though sometimes dramatic, are still considered risky...
...blitz. They flopped down hurriedly into the tall Kunai grass of the valley. Australian artillerymen with their guns dropped down after them. The Aussies had had only a week's training and only one practice jump, but they took the leap gamely. Australian pioneers, who had made a five-day trek overland, joined the U.S. and Australian paratroopers...
John Is Nimble. Day before he wrote the letter, John Lewis had signed a contract with the Illinois operators which gives about 30,000 miners portal-to-portal pay, an overall increase of three dollars a day (from $45.50 for a five-day week to $63.50 for a six-day week). The increase was worked out by a maze of formulas TIME, August 2, 1943 which does not touch the basic hourly rate and therefore permits Lewis to argue that the contract does not violate the Little Steel formula...
...started the first regular weather observation nights in the U.S. He found that an air mass retains the same specific humidity and potential temperature throughout its journey from the polar to the temperate zone. Result was more accurate forecasting over longer ranges; the U.S. Weather Bureau began to issue five-day forecasts, is steadily extending the span...
...Army, waving aside all advice, had stubbornly insisted on buying the Stevens. Cost: $6,000,000 (its original cost in 1927: $28,000,000). Then, in a fabulous five-day sale, the Army had auctioned off almost all the internal fixings of the Stevens-pots, pans, bowling alleys, beds, linen and spittoons (TIME, March 29). Realized from the sale: almost $600,000 (replacement value: over $2,000,000). The auction came just 90 days before the Army decided to sell the Stevens. Yet for only $3,000 a month in storage charges the Army could have held...