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...Subtilin, an extract of the bacillus sub-tilis (the hay bacillus found in every open field) will kill tubercle bacilli in test tubes. This announcement, by the University of California's Dr. Anthony J. Salle, may mean very little. Test-tube results are only a preliminary step and subtilin has a long way to go to prove itself; like many another potential "cure," it may be no good in the human body...
Ironically, the company whose planes had done more than any other to bomb Japan into submission had been hit harder, dollarwise, than any other plane company by contract cancellations. Boeing already has on hand almost enough sub-assemblies for all the B-29s the Army will take in the next three months. The company had no choice but to stay closed until it can trim its force down to the small number needed to put out the few B-29s wanted (only five or six a month by April...
...will use the old tools on the first models-which, in answer to frantic appeals from the nation's doctors, may be converted to special, G.E.-developed heaters for polio packs. There will be no layoffs while G.E. tries to gather its raw stocks, or hurry its sub-assemblers. For months, G.E.'s huge home laundry sales force, acting solely as expediters, has been out breaking reconversion bottlenecks...
...second, as incredibly delicate as the first, a gaseous uranium compound was pumped through the finest of sub-microscopic filters. The faintly more volatile U-235 passed through more easily. Result: a higher percentage of U-235 beyond the filters...
...world's tallest building shuddered through its 1,250 feet and down through its sub-street depths. A great roar burst from its high-rearing ribs...