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Last week Henry Reichhold really did start something. The Austrian-born chemist (who quit Henry Ford in 1927 in an argument over a raise in salary to $7 a day, now runs his own show as chairman of Detroit's Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.) offered prizes of $25,000, $5,000 and $2,500 for the three best symphonies (half-hour or less) turned out during the next year by U.S. and Latin American composers...
...silicones are so new that most of their uses are still a military secret. Chief credit for their discovery is given to a British chemist named F. S. Kipping, who developed the first practical formula for making them in 1904. Kipping saw little use for silicones. But researchers of the Corning Glass Works and General Electric, picking up where Kipping left off, have recently developed silicones in a variety of forms (liquid and solid) for a variety of purposes...
Kiss the Blood off My Hands was published by Jarrolds in England in 1940, shortly before Jarrolds was bombed out in the blitz. It was the first novel of 37-year-old Gerald Butler, a onetime chemist who is now director of an advertising firm, and it sold 232,000 copies. He has since written three more novels...
...inspired by his Man the Unknown. But top-rank scientists charged that the foundation had a distinctly pro-Nazi tinge, that its subsidized sociological studies had served as a front for researches in "racism." After Paris' liberation, Carrel was suspended as director of the foundation. Last week famed Chemist Fédéric Joliot, now top man in French science, was reported preparing to place the foundation under new management...
...postwar world in which "night time will be made safer and more colorful" by phosphorescent gadgets was pictured by R.C.A.'s Chemist H. W. Leverenz. He mentioned houses with luminescent walls, ceilings, murals, doorknobs and keyholes; articles of luminescent plastics...