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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Within a few years great British manufacturing concerns found in the young barrister the most able scientific expert in the country. Calm, urbane, he could speak clearly, expertly on the most complicated industrial matters, could explain to bewildered judges the manufacturing processes of dyestuffs," celanese, the photoelectric cell. At the age of 38 (1927) Cripps was a King's Counsel earning ?10,000 a year and able to "command almost any fee and any terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Without a Party | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Died. The Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledochowski, 76, for 27 years the "Black Pope" (Superior General of the Society of Jesus) ; in his cell at Jesuit headquarters in Rome. One of the four longest-ruling world leaders of the Jesuits in the order's 400-year history, he was its greatest modern rebuilder, raised the number of provinces from 27 to 50, increased the 17,000 members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Cruel & Unusual. In Kansas City, Officer Tom Coates broke up a crap game in a jail cell full of prisoners who had just been arrested for shooting craps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 14, 1942 | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...home is the largish, comfortable, book-filled Master's House at University College, Oxford, but he spends much time in his cell-like London Government office, living in a basement Reform Club where, since the blitz bombed him out, he sleeps comfortably in a passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Rare & Refreshing Beveridge! | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...After the war," promises George F. Begoon, manager of Precipitron sales, "the cost will be little if any more than an electric refrigerator. Westinghouse already has made a two-cell unit selling for $300 that will clean the air in the average six-room home." Savings on cleaning and replacements are substantial; savings on health cannot be figured although the Precipitron catches pollen and bacteria. Not even tobacco smoke, which has the finest particles found in the air (16,000 side by side are no wider than a pinhead), escapes its electrical filter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dust Trap | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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