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...Best way to give penicillin is by injections into muscle or (in localized wounds and infections) by salve, powder or solution. Results of dosage by mouth are fair at best...
Flooded Factories. High water on highways and railroads meant delay in production of many war materials, delay in shipping goods already produced. Logansport, Ind. has five plants with war contracts; all had to be shut down. Four war plants in the St. Louis area, including Atlas Powder Co.'s great TNT plant, were closed either because incoming raw materials did not arrive or because water entered the buildings. In Arkansas the Big Inch broke, reducing the East's oil supplies even more (see p. 18). At Dupo, Ill., near St. Louis, one of the nation's largest...
...Body dusting powder is less a luxury than a necessity in tropical warfare. Fungus infections (like "athlete's foot") start and spread quickly in the damp heat. A new after-bath powder contains natural and synthetic insecticides to ward off typhus-carrying lice...
American hunters banged away with ball powder at deer and grouse before the season was opened on Japs and Nazis. The British were the first to use it in military ammunition: after Dunkirk, Western built a plant for England. Since then, more than a billion rounds have been loaded with the new powder. Factories in the U.S. went up in jig time because the process needed only materials and equipment available locally-often assembled by local boilermakers...
Western's process was developed by its technical department headed by Dr. Fred Olsen, formerly in charge of research at Picatinny Arsenal. Called one of the few basically new ideas since the Chinese invented black powder, the process cuts manufacturing time from a normal 15 days to three...