Push for Penicillin.

The article reports on the commercial production of the penicillin drug in the U.S. in 1943. Background on penicillin research is highlighted. According to Major General Norman T. Kirk, Surgeon General of the Army, production capacity is very small, enough to treat only a few hundred cases a week. It explains that batches of raw material are sometimes lost when something goes wrong in the refining process. The Chemicals Division of the War Production Board (WPB) has won a top priority rating for new penicillin plant construction and facilities.