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...Harold Clayton Urey, chemist of Columbia University: "The experiment may cause another industrial revolution of greater magnitude than that caused by the use of steam and electricity...
...Nichols. Already aged, in 1920 Dr. William Henry Nichols, a skilled chemist with an eye for business, helped form Allied and was its chairman until his death last year. In 1921 his son, Charles Walter Nichols, was made president of Nichols Copper Co. (long rumored about to merge with Phelps-Dodge Corp.). Previous to that, the son had worked in many of his father's chemical plants, added to the knowledge of chemistry he acquired in Cornell (1898- 1902). In 1928 the son was made a director of Allied. Last week it was announced that, during Mr. Weber...
Before the War a comparatively small number of low-grade Egyptians smoked hashish and opium, with little appreciable social harm. At the War's end a Greek chemist introduced cocaine to high Egyptian society. The middle classes took up the fad. Then came heroin. Now, it is estimated, one out of 28 Egyptians is a dope addict, and one out of 56 dazzles himself with heroin...
Members of the great German learned society Kaiser Wilhelm Gesallschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften went to the Berlin suburb of Dahlem, walked down Faradayweg to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Silicate Research. There they heard Professor-Doktor Wilhelm Eitel, physical-chemist, director of the silicate research, speak of "one of the most sensational discoveries of the decade." They surveyed the discovery, a small metal disc which would do what scientists have been predicting and working towards for years ?make electricity out of sunlight...
...dark night last week two men watched a house near Park Avenue, Manhattan. A woman came out, glanced about her, bent down, sprinkled a powder about each house corner, quietly disappeared indoors. The two men gathered up pinches of the powder from the sidewalk, took the pinches to a chemist to be analyzed. As they had suspected, it was arsenic...