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PREDICTED John T. Blake, a top rubber chemist: "With the new isocyanate rubbers [made from fatty acids and alcohol-type compounds] and with the new fabrics and reinforcement fibers . . . the lifetime tire is not far away . . . [with] colored rubbers that may be as tough as black compounds are today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Sep. 21, 1953 | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...spent three years as supervisor of Ford's paint manufacturing plant, but on the side, with a $10,000 stake from his father, began boiling synthetic resins experimentally in a kettle in a friend's garage. He used a formula developed by his father's chemist, Dr. Herbert Hoenel, to make the base for a fast-drying paint which hardened without heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHEMICALS: The Little Giant | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...excludes women in prison because their stories differed too widely from women in ordinary life Included are females aged 2 to 90 (little girls' apparent sexual responses were reported by adults), from a wide variety of social, economy, and cultural backgrounds. Sample occupations-acrobat, archeologist, auditor, barmaid, chemist, dentist, dice girl, governess, laundress lawyer, missionary, politician, puppeteer, probation officer, prostitute, riveter, robber, social worker soda jerker, teacher, typist, U.N. delegate, WAC. *Less inhibited were some noted teenagers of the past. Says Kinsey: "Helen was twelve years old when Paris carried her off from Sparta Daphnis was 15 and Chloe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 5,940 Women | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...Scientific Approach. In Point Mugu, Calif., Chemist John Tabor stepped outside his laboratory door, spotted a 4-ft. rattlesnake poised to strike, reached for a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher, sprayed the snake into a frozen state, then carried it inside and killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 24, 1953 | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...supported and supplied by many other inedible parts. Generally only the seeds and tubers can be eaten by man. Another trouble with conventional food plants: when they are young, they cover only a little ground. A field of thriving, knee-high corn may delight a farmer, but to a chemist's eye it is shockingly inefficient. It utilizes only a small fraction of the sunlight falling on the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bountiful Algae | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

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