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Founder of the clinic is young Chemist Frank Bickenheuser, one of the original researchers on the preventive oil. To try it out, he went to San Antonio last spring, spent some of his own money, wangled funds from prominent citizens, drugs from the State Health Department. No one protested, for the townspeople were frightened by soaring venereal-disease rates in other towns close to army camps.* Even San Antonio clergymen have not objected to the plan. Most grateful are the girls. Recently some of them chipped in, tried to give Chemist Bickenheuser a donation for his clinic. He turned...
...chronically plagued with surpluses as the U.S. cotton South. In the past ten years the Brazilian Government has bought up more than 70,000,000 bags of surplus coffee from growers, spent millions for fuel oil and labor to burn it. But last week, thanks to a U.S. chemist, it looked as though Brazil might make something on its coffee surpluses. Means: cafelite (pronounced ka-fay-leé-tee), a new plastic...
...Chemist Boyer last week hoped for "limited production" by 1943, said "there's lots of development work to do." Plastic bodies would relieve some of Detroit's immediate worries over steel and chrome, but not over copper, zinc, nickel, other shortages. Nor could it easily get the new presses and tools to work the plastics. But in normal times, plastic cars would take some 10% of the steel industry's market and give it to farmers. The new Ford was the first gun in a technological revolution that may begin when the other guns are stilled...
Baly records some curious experiments. In his laboratory in 1928 he achieved the photosynthesis of formaldehyde, glucose, starch, other organic compounds in a test-tube solution of carbon dioxide. As a catalyst he used nickel carbonate instead of chlorophyll (which no chemist has yet got to work outside the veins of plants). But neither Baly nor any other chemist, using identical methods, has ever succeeded in repeating the experiment...
Perfect teamwork now prevails between U.S. and British scientists working on military devices. Harvard's Conant, a chemist by trade and a member of NDRC, recently spent a month in Britain sharing his secrets, filling his head with new ones. Britain's scientific ambassador to the U.S. is Charles Gallon Darwin, grandson of the great evolutionist and head of Britain's National Physical Laboratory...