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...potentially four times as powerful as 100-octane. Estimated cost: $.50-$1 a gallon. The Society presented its highest award, the Priestley Medal, to Harvard's President James Bryant Conant for his work on synthetic rubber and as chairman of OSRD's National Defense Research Committee. Bernard Baruch declared that President Conant was chiefly responsible for breaking the technological deadlock in synthetic-rubber production. Other highlights...
Adventure in Adversity. Then from Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch came the weightiest warning of all. In a letter to Jimmy Byrnes, Mr. Baruch whacked WPB as well as Congress for delay in putting into effect the Baruch demobilization plan (TIME, Feb. 28). Said the letter: "The nation is still months away from being prepared to meet the great adjustments that will come on X-day when one of our enemies is defeated...
...Bernard Baruch, twice in two days cited and dined, received the 1944 Churchman award and the 1944 National Institute of Social Sciences medal, both for humanitarianism. At the Churchman dinner Elder Statesman Baruch spoke words of humanitarian wisdom: "We are the most powerful nation in the world. . . . When the war is over no country will be able to improve the well-being of its people without our help. ... In another day, Cicero said the proudest boast a man could utter was 'Civis Romanus sum.' It is my prayer that our conduct may always be such as to carry...
Eleanor Roosevelt described the goal in a brief My Day reference: "We are going to keep him away from work for certain periods of time, no matter how unpopular we are." Wife & daughter want to guard the strength Franklin Roosevelt regained in his rest at Bernard Baruch's Hobcaw Barony. Now that the President has abandoned his luncheons with politicians, generals, admirals, diplomats and visiting firemen, Anna Boettiger frequently lunches with him, and the conversation is deliberately kept light...
Other days he went driving through the plantation's pines and cypresses, looking at jonquils and dogwoods in full bloom. Sometimes he "just sat" on the white-columned front porch of Hobcaw, a stately 21-room house built by Baruch twelve years ago on the 226-year-old plantation...