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Conant Famed as Chemist...
...Washington insiders were aware of another figure: bald, bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann of London and Palestine, noted chemist, noted Zionist. Dr. Weizmann had a date in Washington to confer with Presidential Adviser Judge Samuel I. Rosenman. Reports were that Dr. Weizmann, who did not claim to know all the facts about synthetic rubber, nevertheless knew more of them than any other one man, perhaps could set the record straight...
...chemical, invented by Walter Juda under the direction of Grinnel Jones, professor of Chemistry, is known as "F. A. M." Juda, a German-born chemist and refugee from Hitlerism, has been working since the beginning of the war on this liquid...
...candy and chewing gum were spiked with synthetic vitamin K, U.S. dentists might have to go out of business: tooth cavities, which afflict 95% of the U.S. population, might be prevented. So claimed Chemist Leonard Samuel Fosdick* & colleagues of Northwestern University in a preliminary report in Science last week. Vitamin K, found naturally in alfalfa, hog liver, cabbage, tomatoes and possibly in unrefined sugar, is valuable for its properties as a blood-clotter, especially in hemorrhages of newborn infants. When taken into the mouth, Dr. Fosdick discovered, vitamin K serves another function-it prevents sugars from turning into tooth-corroding...
Thiokol itself is not brand-new. It was accidentally discovered in 1929 by a chemist who was trying to concoct an antifreeze. Since 1930 it has been manufactured as a substitute for rubber, leather, cork. Typical uses: barrage balloon coatings, gas masks, gasoline hoses, washers, cable sheathing...