Paying Our Share of War Expenses in Peaceful Times
Wright A Patterson reflects on WWI duties such as import tariffs ground rents and fortifications abroad and argues peacetime value of airfields should favor American access. He warns postwar aviation could remain controlled by England France and others unless fields are opened for American planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Australia
French
New Caledonia
South Seas
Iceland
England
Africa
Egypt
Near East
Penicillin exhibit marks step in medical progress
In 1929 Alexander Fleming notes mold killed germs and 1940 shows penicillin’s use in humans. At Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry Dr Milan Novak presents a public exhibit tracing penicillin from mold to drug and explains production limits and testing methods. The display also covers seven historical medical innovators and a 19th century apothecary shop replica.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Fleming
London
Bacteriology and Public Health
University of Illinois College of Medicine
E. J. Carey
Marquette University Medical School
Milwaukee
Wis
Karl Wilhelm Scheele
Pelletier and Caventon
Bernard Courtois
Antoine Bilard
Limited Penicillin Use Amid Scarcity Pushes Alternatives
Penicillin is used only where patients respond, per Dr. Austin E. Smith of the AMA council on pharmacy and chemistry. With supply scarce, unlimited use is not permitted and sulfonamides are favored. Until a synthetic method is devised production remains slow and costly, though about eight firms produced penicillin early this year, expected to rise to twenty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin E. Smith
Council On Pharmacy and Chemistry
The
American Medical Association
Smith
Witragin CO. Inc
H. Booth St
Milwaukee
Wis
Reruffled Pinafores Pattern 731 for Ducky and Cubby
Pattern 731 describes a transfer set of 12 motifs sized from 34 by 114 inches to 6 by 912 inches with full directions. The catalog notes sixteen cents cost and longer processing due to high demand and war conditions. Orders should be sent to the noted address.
Oath on Bayonet in Royal West African Frontier Force
A Nigerian native enlists in Britain's Royal West African Frontier Force and takes an oath by touching his tongue to his bayonet, an age old custom for pagans without a holy book to swear upon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Royal West African Frontier Force
Soldiers Reflect On Slang For Cigs And Ranks In Service Ads
A wartime ad notes soldiers use slang to hide emotion with terms like buzzards for colonels and Camels for cigarettes. It claims Camels are popular across Army Navy Marine and Coast Guard personnel and mentions shipping rules on overseas packages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office
U. S
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
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Wright A Patterson
Western Newspaper Union
America
Mary
AL Jedlicka
Western
Union
Peru
Louis Jacques Thenard
Frederick Belding Powder
Patricia Malone
New York City
New York
Ducky
Cubby
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
W. Randolph St
Chicago
Ill
Dr. Caldwell
Cal
Liberty Bay War Bonds
and McKesson
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