Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They wanted no Army. They thought that war could be stopped. Their propaganda appealed to a war-sick nation. That propaganda was still going strong in 1940. "World Peace-ways Inc." spread its poster ads through the U.S. press: pictures of a maimed veteran captioned "Hello, Sucker," of a chemist bending over a fiendish brew...
...four-minute mile is possible. So reported Dr. Alfred W. Francis, research chemist and amateur trackman, in Science. Using a plot of average speed in meters per second against the logarithm of the distance, he drew a graph of 17 record marks, from 200 meters to 10 miles. The point for one mile was well below Arne Andersson's present record: 4:02.6. Dr. Francis, whose own record for the mile is 4:38, figures...
...well-guarded brick building in Chicago houses what may well be the most priceless card index in the U.S. The index belongs to a young chemist named Martin H. Heeren. The cards bear strange titles...
Heeren is seldom told what a chemical is wanted for, but in most cases he can make a shrewd guess. Because many a chemical, like Michler's ketone, is known by more than one name, Heeren's file is a complicated affair. Once a chemist asked for sodium propionate; after long research Heeren discovered that this rarity was made in hundreds of tons as an insecticide under the trade name "Mycoban." He learned to watch out for requests from cranks and small-boy amateurs who some times ask for dangerous ingredients. His mail varies between advanced chemical information...
Robert Donat plays a British chemist who undertakes a secret, suicidally difficult mission to Rumania. His orders: to get a job in a Nazi plant which is manufacturing the most destructive poison gas in history. He must also learn the formula and destroy the plant in time to avert the use of the gas against Britain...