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...automobiles ever roll on U. S. highways, a notion and a man should get the glory. The notion was Henry Ford's: that man should go back to the land, that the use of agricultural products in industry should be multiplied. The man is stoutish, balding Robert Allen Boyer, a chemist who looks older than his 31 years, has silver hairs among the brown...
...ardent believer in boys. Henry Ford discovered Robert Boyer in 1925 while visiting Ford's Wayside Inn, managed by the boy's father. Earl Joseph Boyer. Attracted by Robert's active interest in what made the world go round. Ford took him out of the Framingham High School (near Boston), where he was a hockey and baseball addict, "B" chemistry student, later enrolled him in the Ford Trade School...
...boss's pet from the start. Boyer blossomed in the F. T. S. He took to such brain-crackers as how to manufacture synthetic wool from soybeans, a type of problem that made experts stare blankly but were longtime reveries of Motor-maker Ford. In the summer of 1930 Ford built him a three-story frame laboratory behind the Museum in Greenfield Village...
Designed as a temporary structure, the lab still stands. In it Boyer and his 28 aides have done many strange things-mostly with soybeans, No. 1 farm product to Henry Ford. From this bean Boyer has extracted lubricating and paint oils, made a synthetic wool, pressed insulating varnish for starters and generators, and also extracts the male sex hormone...
...Boyer hurried down the mountain to summon aid from Seattle. Through the afternoon, night and next morning, Faye Plank sat alone on a six-inch ledge, fighting sleep and listening to the noisy growl of the waterfalls. She had to watch the rope and hold it jammed in a crevice with her boot heels. Said she: "I could hear Anne down below. At first she was just moaning. But when it got dark she began calling. . . . Night lasted a long time, but the early morning was the worst. . . ." At 10:30 that morning, sleepless Karl Boyer and the rescuers...