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...Legend: The War Office reportedly negotiated the promise in return for the TNT formula of Jewish Chemist Chaim Weizmann, longtime Zionist leader...
Last week at the Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Failla and his associate, Japanese Chemist Kanematsu Sugiura, told how they confirmed this theory and discovered a powerful new treatment for cancer. If the theory were true, reasoned the scientists, water injected directly into a tumor after treatment with X-rays would increase the swelling of cancer cells, kill them more quickly...
...There is a momentary pause while water and carbon monoxide combine to form methyl alcohol. As the synthesis proceeds the music turns into a syncopated Cakewalk, the dance of ethyl alcohol. . . . The atoms hesitate, swaying and staggering about, intoxicated by the motions they have discovered. . . . The chemist awakens and rushes to the centre of the stage...
Written by 72-year-old Pharmaceutical Chemist Alfred Robert Louis Dohme, longtime (1911-29) president of Sharpe & Dohme (drugs), the ballet scenario tells of a scientist who tries to synthesize radioactive benzene from acetylene with the aid of an atom-smasher. Something goes wrong; "there is a series of blinding flashes and he staggers back." After another failure, he sits down, sinks into discouraged sleep, dreams...
...comes to a head in the large Espinosa family of Guernica, Spain; Uncle Pablo, the black sheep, mocks his kindly brother for his liberalism in the civil war; son and daughter are innocently involved in the murder of an anarchist leader; Father Espinosa cannot sell his chemist's shop and escape to France. German bombers sailing overhead end the family row and the Basque city of Guernica at the same time. Young Carlos escapes to Paris where he tells his powerful, grim story to German refugee Author Kesten, and decides not to commit suicide but to sit in judgment...