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...Washington, a famed chemist, Dr. James I. Hoffman, gave a sure-fire method for thwarting Halloween window-waxers: rubbing a thin coat of vaseline on glass surfaces before the young fiends arrive. Once windows are waxed, he explained, they can best be cleaned with gasoline, kerosene or turpentine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...late George Washington Carver, slaveborn agricultural chemist, went the honor of being the second* Negro in U.S. history to appear on a postage stamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 27, 1947 | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...Secret of Life. Next day, Nobel Chemist Wendell Meredith Stanley, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Provinces | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...government need is for qualified specialists in the following positions: administrative technician, archeologist, astronomer, bacteriologist, chemist, economist, engineer, geographer, legal assistant, librarian, mathematician, metallurgist, patent examiner, physical, psychologist, social science analyst, and statistician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Assistant Jobs Announced By Civil Service | 10/24/1947 | See Source »

...Universal-International Pictures. Matty Fox, whose pudgy fingers dabble in many side investments that have little to do with movies, got into balloon-blowing by way of the "everlasting match." The match, which could be struck 600 times, had been invented in 1931 by Dr. Ferdinand Ringer, a Viennese chemist. It was bought up for $400,000-and filed away-by the late match king, Ivar Kreuger. Subsequently, Dr. Ringer came to the U.S., and when a federal court broke up the remnants of Kreuger's old cartel in 1946, the match was again available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Blow Your Own | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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