"I have just heard, unofficially, that the Committee on Blood Substitutes of the National Research Council has sent you a recommendation that all projects concerned with gelatine as a possible blood substitute be discontinued."
A. N. Richards. Letter to Linus Pauling. May 8, 1944.

"The recommendation of the NRC Committee was that [your contract] not be extended and the CMR, acting in accordance with it, voted not to extend."
A. N. Richards. Letter to Linus Pauling. May 14, 1944.

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