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Invited by the National Association of Home Builders, the Russians arrived in Washington for a 30-day tour of 13 cities to study U.S. methods. Their chief: hearty but acid I. K. Kozuilia, boss of all urban construction in the U.S.S.R. Their manner: inquisitive skepticism, caused partly by apparent unwillingness to be as folksy as the Russian farm group, partly by what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Seeking Shelter | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...country's foremost biochemists, Woodward has done research in the synthesis of quinine, cortisone, and lysergic acid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woodward Obtains Prize for Research | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

Only a pampered husband, swathed in editorial cotton wool, could possibly have written the "acid ode" on U.S. wives . . . I'm afraid Editor Fischer wanted a lot of free publicity for himself and his magazine, but hit on a poor means of getting it. Why doesn't he cut himself loose from his wife's apron strings and find out firsthand what American men and women are really like, and then write his piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...feminine protests began to pour in last week, Jack Fischer, married these 19 years,* allowed that his acid ode might have been "an unfortunate lapse." Said he in a somewhat cowed tone: "Believe me, certainly no lady in my family, and no lady of my acquaintance even, fits the description...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Male at Bay | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Steen's mill, the eleventh in the nation, will go into production next summer, will refine ore (by the sulphuric-acid leaching process) from Mi Vida and other mines in the Big Indian Wash district, as well as from AEC's nearby stockpile. To finance construction, Steen will borrow $3,500,000 from New York's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank, $6,200,000 from the New York Life Insurance Co., thus bring a major insurance company into the uranium business for the first time. Steen need not worry about customers: AEC will take the mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Biggest Uranium Mill | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

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