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...former German process under U.S. patents. Since 1933 Winthrop has gradually increased its atabrine production in stiff competition with natural quinine, gradually reduced its price (to the Government) from $66 to $6 per thousand tablets. By 1941, it produced 90 million tablets a year, enough for 6 million malaria cases. Even before Pearl Harbor this had been increased to 227 million tablets...
With quinine imports from the Orient shut off, Winthrop contracted with Merck & Co., Inc. to manufacture atabrine (TIME, April 27). Present production of the two firms is 500 million tablets, enough for 33 million cases of malaria. But both could produce several hundred million more in case of need...
Atabrine, however, is not a complete substitute for quinine since it attacks only one of the two forms of the malaria germ. Quinine attacks both. To make atabrine as effective as quinine it must be administered together with plasmochin (another synthetic). But the amount of plasmochin needed is small, and Winthrop has already increased its production...
...claims. All he is trying to do is tell a clear, simple story, lightened by touches of amusement. Already produced or in the Disney works are films on such diverse subjects as teaching flush riveting to workers, Basic English (TIME, June 15), anti-tank gunnery, prostitution, food, Nazi ideology, malaria, good neighbors. He is making some 20 instruction films for the Navy; for the Army he has turned out a series of films on airplane identification, is preparing another on the Nazi invasion of Poland. For fun and good neighborliness he is turning out twelve on Latin America...
...weather-beaten face, a dour smile, a sunburned neck: he might have been a hunter in the backwoods of his native Florida. But like the plain, lanky Americans who hacked the nation out of the wilderness, "Vinegar Joe" had created an epic-out of sweat and weariness and malaria, of retreat and desperation and endurance. And last week what he was doing for China (see p. 37) was worth all the noble and encouraging talk in the world...