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...leggers had learned how to "cook out" milder denaturants. What Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman called "a last resource" was the change in Formula 44-A: 100 gal. grain alcohol, 4 gal. wood alcohol (replacing 2 gal. gasoline), 10 gal. fusel oil or amyl alcohol. Chief Chemist William Vanarsdale Linder of the Prohibition Unit explained that alcohol thus denatured was only for the varnish and lacquer industry, not for the public...
James Medbery MacKaye is professionally a chemist. For 23 years he was with Stone & Webster, Boston engineers. In leisure time he wrote such books as The Economy of Happiness, The Politics of Utility, The Happiness of Nations, Americanized Socialism, The Logic of Conduct. Five years ago he quit Stone & Webster, and moved from stuffy Cambridge, Mass.. to sylvan Hanover, N. H. To students of Dartmouth, where he is a visiting lecturer in philosophy, he is an aloof though smiling mystery who teaches them how to think clearly, argue effectively...
Essential to Mr. Eaton is the assistance of able steel men for Mr. Eaton knows little of steel and, like a chemist's catalyst by his mere presence hastens reactions in which he has otherwise no part. "I am,'' he himself has said, "only an investor." Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, he graduated from McMasters University, Toronto, and, in 1906 arrived in Cleveland with the Baptist ministry as his chosen career. Before ordination, however, he became interested in public utilities, left the ministry in favor of Cleveland street railways. Next he went to Iowa, bought up options...
Rubber is a complex hydrocarbon. Fundamental in its composition is isoprene. The organic chemist can make isoprene from such common stuffs as turpentine, petroleum, starch, coal tar or acetylene. News of goldenrod as a likely rubber source gave the casual daily press opportunity to picture farmers sneezing as they harvested the autumn-gorgeous weed. But goldenrod pollen is one of the lesser causes of hayfever. Ragweed, more widespread, is the chief cause...
...once arose a judicial question: What was the value of the "smell" testimony of a Senator who knows nothing about liquor from the standpoint of personal imbibation? Does experience as a chemist qualify him as an expert on alcoholic odors? It was pointed out on the Senate floor that gold paint smells like bananas but it is not bananas...