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...long, slow and painful process." Mr. Conant advised applying the analogy to business. "The old alchemists, a very secretive crowd, who tried to keep for themselves the secret of their art, had only a casual regard for the truth. But the revolution came with a pamphlet entitled "The Skeptical Chemist' . . . . I think a skeptical spirit is to be recommended in studying business procedures...
...small-town chemist-electrician named James A. Boze, trudging through the muck of French battlefields, concluded, like many another before him, that the almost constant rains were caused by the incessant explosion of heavy artillery shells. This summer's drought gave James A. Boze of Waxahachie, Tex. an idea. Obtaining damage waivers from the owners of some 27,000 parched acres south of Dallas, he hired a plane, flew over clouds, dropped high-explosive bombs into them. That day it rained in Waxahachie. Farmers thanked Nature, not Boze...
...inspired alibis with which to explain to stockholders an eventually unavoidable write-off were ever compounded than this tale of Capital on strike. Sabotage may have sped the demise, but it was a slower poison which made the case of Hopewell hopeless. See if you can find a rayon chemist who will take his tongue out of his cheek and deny...
...potentially poisonous. Her report alarmed silk manufacturers who during the past decade have sold more than 100,000,000 yards of leaded silk without a single report of anyone's being poisoned by their goods. Miss Kessinger's report also embarrassed Professor Lawrence Turner Fairhall, Harvard chemist, who only two years ago said: "No absorption of lead occurs even under extreme conditions as a result of wearing this material in direct contact with the skin...
...Chemist Peter Carter Speers of Forman Christian College (Lahore, India...