Hoard for Drugs

When the U. S. Government moved its great gold hoard into the underground strongboxes at Fort Knox, Ky., it left vacant a number of gold vaults in the U. S. Treasury in Washington. Last week the Public Health Service used these to start another kind of hoard--drugs, especially drugs which World War II has made more & more difficult to import. High on this list is quinine, most of which is imported from the war-threatened Netherlands East Indies. Others: opium, morphine.

If U. S. soldiers ever have to fight in Central or South America, large quantities of yellow-fever vaccine will be needed. The U. S. hoard of that must start almost from scratch. Surgeon General Thomas Parran recently observed that there was hardly enough yellow-fever vaccine actually on hand to immunize a single regiment.

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