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...Professor Riley? Guesses began to fly: perhaps he was Durham University's eminent Chemist Harry Lister Riley (no; reporters found him vacationing in Northumberland); a Government bigwig, sent, as Lord Runciman was to Czecho-Slovakia in August 1938, to find that the disputed area wasn't worth squabbling over (Downing Street denied it); a personal emissary of Neville Chamberlain's sent behind his own Government's back to pave the way for a second Munich agreement; perhaps just a crank...
...Swiss chemist, Frederick Norbert Wagner contracted travelers' itch "while my shirtwaist and trousers were still one piece." At 17 he shipped to the U. S. After clerking for a shipping line, he landed a job in Cook's London office. The World War found him skittering about as a British Intelligencer, an experience which brought him many a fruitful contact ("I know all the little back doors...
Sportsmen and municipal officials set up such a howl that papermaking States have threatened to crack down on the dumping. Some foresighted paper-mill operators had hired chemists to see whether the waste liquor could be turned to profit. One of the leaders in that move was cagey Marathon Paper Mills Co. (food containers, waxed-paper wrappers). To its plant at Rothschild, Wis. twelve years ago it summoned lanky, sensitive Guy Howard, free-lance consulting chemist, and gave him a staff of researchers. Since then it has put $1,500,000 into its chemical division...
From sulphite liquor, in the course of a decade, Chemist Howard and his helpers drew a reddish-brown goo: lignin. From lignin they extracted vanillin (synthetic vanilla), now used for flavoring by many big sweets and ice cream manufacturers; Maratan, a chemical for tanning hides; T. D. A., a chemical for improving the quality of cement. Faster than dizzy Marathon officials could find markets for them, Guy Howard turned out new byproducts...
...lignin plastic at the rate of 25 tons a day, has raw materials on hand for a top production of 400 tons daily. Last year the company's net sales were $11,109,000. Last week its officials announced a $1,500,000 expansion program. But Chemist Howard was still scouting ahead. His goal: to establish his new chemical talk-of-the-town as the most important addition to the world's store of raw materials since coal tar and cellulose...