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...thinker like his boss, was relieved of his tasks as Administrator to head the revamped Bureau of Agriculture Economics. Economist Albert G. Black, an energetic, 42-year-old idea man, was given Marketing & Regulation. Promoted to head new divisions were Soil Conserver H. H. Bennett (Physical Land Use) and Chemist Henry G. Knight (Research & Technology). Closer than any of these to the Secretary is lean, loyal, Lincolnesque Under Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson, a fellow alumnus of Iowa State College whose father used to read him Wallace's Farmer by kerosene lamp, with special emphasis on Uncle Henry...
...Kenneth Claude Devereux Hickman is a suave, sociable British chemist who works for the Eastman Kodak laboratories in Rochester. N. Y. His specialty is the efficient recovery of vitamins from fish oils by a clever technique of distillation...
...Irvine had been head of the luetic (syphilitic) clinic for five years, had pre pared thousands of injections. That morning, she ordered neoarsphenamine from the hospital's chemist, and when she received the yellow powder, did not bother to look at the label but merely mixed five-to-twelve-grain doses of the drug in dis tilled water...
Rockland's superintendent. Dr. Russell Enoch Blaisdell, suspended Mrs. Irvine and dismissed Chemist Henry Alvers, prepared himself for six Federal, State and local investigations...
Owens-Illinois and Corning are model parents for the new company. Owens, with total assets of $87,562,251, is the world's largest bottlemaker; their chemist, Games Slayter, started perfecting fibre glass seven years ago. Corning (assets and profits secret) has specialized in technical refinements; it was to Corning that Thomas Edison went in 1878 asking for a little glass bubble in which to put his incandescent filament...