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Word: chemist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testify before the Senate's Internal Security subcommittee, Atom Spies Harry Gold (doing a 30-year stretch) and David Greenglass (15 years) provided some intriguing marginal notes to the history of U.S. treason. Admitting that the Russians had done "a superb psychological job" on him, onetime Philadelphia Chemist Gold, 45, drew snickers in the Washington hearing room when he debunked the "trash" written to explain why he turned traitor. Said he of one theory: "I haven't been uniformly successful in love, but I didn't get into espionage for that reason." Nor was it because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

Savant. In Birmingham, Jessie Lowery was held for a grand jury on an illegal distilling charge despite his lawyer's plea: "Your Honor, he just has the inquiring spirit of a chemist, and he likes to put these ingredients together to see if whisky will come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 26, 1956 | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Oilmen are already complaining about the shortage of control panel operators for automated refineries; these technicians must be part engineer, physicist, chemist and mechanic. General Electric is training 28,000 employees for automation's better jobs, expects the company's average pay to rise 50% to $8,000 in ten years. Though automation will displace some workers, in the long run the U.S. economic problem will not be unemployment but how to stretch the U.S. labor force enough to keep up with a population growth of 3% yearly and a standard of living that grows much faster. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business, Mar. 19, 1956 | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...well at his trade, he went to another witch doctor for advice, and there, he said, he found Tikoloshe masquerading as the man's son. "You will go with this son of mine," said the elder doctor, "and get me the blood of 15 people to help my chemist shop. First I want the blood of a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tilcoloshe's Friend | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Conant, a chemist before becoming president of Harvard, left the University in 1953 to become U.S. High Commissioner in Germany and is now Ambassador to West Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Honored | 2/15/1956 | See Source »

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