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Last week at Grove Hill near Hellingly, Sussex, brawny workmen employed by Anglo-American Oil Co. began to drill with up-to-the-minute apparatus capable of boring more than a mile. Present with intense official interest was Lord Apsley, representing the Minister for Coordination of Defense. Some time in August, Britain will get another check on her home oil potential...
When Carver got to Tuskegee he had to poke around in scrap heaps for spare parts with which to build apparatus. With his junkpile equipment he experimented with peanuts, and as the list of surprising products he extracted from them grew longer, his fame traveled farther. Thomas Alva Edison offered him a job, but Carver stayed at Tuskegee. From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy. He showed proficiency in cooking and artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes...
...should a clot of mustard lodged in the digestive apparatus of one splenetic old gentleman affect the well-being of millions...
...present facilities both in the biology and chemistry departments are on the verge of over-crowding. Between Converse and Coolidge, however, Gibbs is, a three-story building which has been unoccupied since the death of Professor Richards, nine years ago. In it still stand the remants of his apparatus, untouched. The building is well equipped and to remodel it to suit it for biochemical work would be comparatively simple...
...Physics department. First, a large group of laboratory instructors interested in the students and with time to spend on them, and secondly an accurate and complete, constantly revisable laboratory manual. These two features would eliminate any need for lectures, and would be necessary because the lack of apparatus would necessitate the performance of the same experiment at widely separated times by different members of the course...