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...Johnson & Son, posed in front of his two-motored Sikorsky Amphibian at Milwaukee Airport, informed newshawks that he was leading a 22,000 mile expedition into the wilds of Brazil. He was disturbed, he said, by a shortage of carnauba wax. With him were a Johnson research chemist, a Johnson purchasing agent, two pilots, field laboratory equipment, specimen cases, cinema cameras, guns, fishing rods. Heading for Para, Brazil, was Dr. B. E. Dahlgren, botany curator of Chicago's Field Museum. Although the expedition had the earmarks of a happy combination of pleasure and publicity, Johnson's President Johnson...
Born near Geneva, Marat was the son of a poor chemist. He studied medicine in Scotland, became expert in several languages, took up science. Fearless, bitter, he possessed a quick, vivid pen, turned it to account, after the overthrow of the French monarchy, with violent and inflammatory pamphlets. He gradually became powerful as a spokesman for the extreme Left, the "true type," according to Joseph Shearing, "of the low agitator of the Paris gutters." Terribly ugly, 5 ft. tall but with an enormous head, he suffered with eczema so badly that it was commonly believed he had leprosy. Charlotte...
True to his promise of a month ago that he would soon be able to manufacture the hormone secreted by the testes which accounts for masculinity (TIME, Sept. 2), Dr. Leopold Ruzicka, Swiss chemist, last week announced that his assistants in his Zurich laboratory had just cabled him word of their success. Testosterone is the name of the new hormone. It is related to the male sex hormone, androsterone, found in urine which Dr. Ruzicka previously synthesized. Like androsterone, testosterone is made from the fat (cholesterol) in sheep's wool, but is 25 to 50 times as potent...
...South America to start a revolution and become a dictator, rushed into the French Army as a lieutenant at the outbreak of War. He won the Legion of Honor, soon became a major. John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave him a hospital at Compiègne. There with Research Chemist Henry Drysdale Dakin he perfected the famed Carrel-Dakin antiseptic solution for the treatment of infected wounds. Mrs. Carrel drove an ambulance close behind the front...
Brown Co. was a pioneer in the newsprint field but abandoned it in favor of kraft papers just before the War. Coarse, heavy paper still accounts for nearly one-third'of Brown's business but its trade fame now rests on pulps. In 1924 its research chemist developed a highly-purified cellulose fibre used in the manufacture of yarns, fabrics, absorbents, fine papers and innumerable plastic products ranging from lighting fixtures to poker chips. The company itself manufactures finished products like yarns, conduits, shoe linings. A leader in forestry and reforestation, Brown Co. abandoned the last...