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...weather-beaten Planter David Washington Pipes, venerated in the sugar country because he grew the cane which routed mosaic disease (as Wallace made his reputation in the corn belt by helping develop hybrid corn), bolted to Willkie, ran for Congress on the Republican ticket, and his regular Democratic opponent withdrew in his favor...
...prepare a glue, the scientists withdrew blood from an artery of a young cock, spun it in a centrifuge. The heavy red blood cells were thrown away and the clear plasma packed on ice where it stayed fresh for six weeks. Into the plasma the experimenters poured a few drops of chicken embryo extract, "a powerful clotting agent...
...first W. & S. president to do so. Frank Augustus Scott was Woodrow Wilson's first chairman of the War Industries Board in 1917, withdrew because of ill health, was ultimately succeeded by Bernard M. Baruch...
...buying a 100,000-to-150,000-ton defense stockpile of rubber before Christmas at 18? to 20? a lb. Last week Rubber Reserve Co. made its maiden venture into the tough and jumpy spot-rubber market. The price moved forward to 20? and R. R. C., squealing, withdrew...
...England withdrew into itself. Sometimes brilliantly, sometimes querulously, then more & more complacently, it spent the next half century dying. The flowering was over: chill autumn...