quantity swelled to 130. Some of these messages ran to 15 typewritten pages. The top-echelon recipients of MAGIC clearly could not afford the time to read all this traffic. Much of it was of secondary importance anyway. Kramer and Colonel Rufus S. Bratton, army G-2 Far Eastern Section chief, winnowed the wheat from this chaff. Reading the entire output, they chose an average of 25 messages a day for distribution. At first Kramer supplemented his translations with gists for recipients too busy to read every word of the actual intercepts, starring the important ones, but he abandoned these in mid-November under the pressure of getting out the basic material. Bratton, who had been delivering summaries of MAGIC in the form of Intelligence Bulletins, began on August 5 to distribute MAGIC verbatim at Marshall's orders. This, however, had the effect of increasing the volume. Marshall complained that to absorb every
to detect these organisms. Also, there are From the standpoint of the microorgan- better and more efficient intervention strate- isms, however, they are simply trying to gies and food-processing methods to con- fulfill their biological need to grow and per- trol unwanted microorganisms. Thus, food petuate themselves via sexual and asexual microbiologists, food scientists, epidemiolo- reproduction. Like humans, they need water, gists, medical personnel, public health carbohydrates, protein, fat, mineral, vita- workers, and consumer educators are charged mins, and the right combinations of gases, with the responsibility of studying the occur- temperature, pH, and other conditions in rence, enumeration, isolation, detection, order to grow and multiply and survive. characterization, prevention, reporting, and Therefore, there are no “good” microorgan-
annaabi.ee 
