General penicillin correspondence

A file of various letters received by the TRC Secretary, with contents including amongst other items:

a claim that "my Patent Formula [for penicillin] is being used and sold throughout the world without my consent" (1946);
press reports that "not more than one third of the penicillin produced in the most up-to-date factories in this country was unusable" (1945);
news that the Chilean Government "has set aside one million Chilean pesos to start construction of a building for the production of penicillin" (1945);
"Report of Conference Called by the Directorate of Medical Supplies to Discuss Packaging, Labelling, Issue and Returns of Production of Penicillin" (13 April, 1944).

1944-1946

1 file

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