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Pondering reasons for the drive's widespread flop. Ickes snapped: "We suspect that people are hoarding rubber and maybe even people in official life are hoarding." His companion. Bill Boyd of the Petroleum Industry War Council, shook his head, too: "If there had been heavier hitting on the part of the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Rubber Hunt | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...fluorescent test which tells surgeons whether or not to amputate was described last week at New York Medical College by Drs. Kurt Lange & Linn John Boyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Greenglow | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Every night the human guinea pigs, after eating "test food," went to bed with a battery of scientific apparatus hitched up to their toes, a microphone strapped to their stomachs. They did not have very comfortable nights. Ohio State Physiologist Hugh Boyd McGlade woke them periodically to ask if they were dreaming. He discovered that dreams were heralded by a "rapid rumbling" below the stomach, a twitching of the right foot. Good food to induce dreams, he found, was bananas. When his guinea pigs ate ice cream, fresh tomatoes or canned pineapple, they neither twitched, rumbled nor dreamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Sleep, To Dream. . . | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...Santschi. Shrewd Sam Goldwyn did it again in 1923 with Milton Sills and Noah Beery, and Paramount repeated in 1930 with leathery Gary Cooper and William Boyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Borderline Stuff | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...Lieutenant Boyd D. Wagner, 25-year-old Army flyer from Pennsylvania. Five Japanese fighters attacked him over Aparri, Hawaii. He shot down two, machine-gunned twelve other Japanese planes on the ground, left five of them burning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: HEROES: All the Glory | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

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