Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soybean product in the news last week was something called Multi-Purpose Food, developed in Los Angeles by Dr. Henry Borsook, Caltech nutritionist. To soybean grits (the material left over after the beans' oil is extracted), Dr. Borsook added minerals, synthetic vitamins, flavoring materials and hydrolyzed yeast. The mixture looks like speckled, light-buff cornmeal. It has twice as much high-grade protein as beef, and more vitamins. It lacks vitamin C (unstable to temperature changes) and is low on calories. But two ounces of the stuff, supplemented with leafy vegetables and a little bread or potatoes, provide...
Erdal Inönü, bespectacled, 21-year-old son of the President of Turkey, arrived by ship on his first U.S. visit, headed for Caltech for some graduate physics...
...gadget, called an electro-cello, was the latest of scientists' attempts to improve on the aged wood and fine Italian hand of the old violin makers. It was fashioned by Caltech's seismologist Dr. Hugo Benioff, who gave up violin playing as a boy because he couldn't stand the noise he made. Eighteen years ago, when he was designing seismographs to measure earthquakes, he decided that there wasn't much difference between a seismograph and a fiddle "except one deals with slow movements and the other with rapid movements." For his scientific cello he mounted...
Contracts & Plans. No one will say what the present Government payroll amounts to; it is a quasi-military secret. The universities are mum. The Navy grudgingly admits that it has signed research contracts for $600,000 with M.I.T., $350,000 with the University of Chicago, $280,000 with Caltech, $220,000 with the University of Texas, $200,000 with Cornell. Undisclosed additional amounts are in the offing. All told, the Navy expects to spend some $45 million on research, much of it for basic science in universities...
...cleaning woman could be let in, because the workers were busy at all hours and highly secret papers were strewn everywhere. The only decorations were cobwebs until one of the group, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Caltech physicist and former director of the Los Alamos atomic bomb laboratory), returned from getting an honorary degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Looking around him, he exclaimed that he could not stand the dirty drabness any longer. Reaching into his suitcase, he pulled out his red and blue academic hood and hung it on a wall bracket-the only note of color...