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Feast. A fortnight ago, in Manhattan, Harvey W. Wiley, coeur-de-lion of pure-food crusades, onetime chief U. S. Government Chemist, sat down to dinner. The occasion was his 80th birthday; his hosts were the members of the Agricultural Chemists' Association, of which he is the Honorary President. Down the long table, fenced with formal shirtfronts, candles shone on the sparkling glasses, on the dishes and dishes of food that succeeded one another. Savory food it was, nourishing, succulent; but on the little cards beside each place it was called by strange names-Borax, Benzoate, Coal Tar, Copper...
...Purity. He conceived the pure food idea when he, a Professor at Purdue University, had taken a year off to study Chemistry in Berlin. Returning, he analyzed some table syrups for the Indiana Board of Health, found them "abominably adulterated." Made Chief Chemist to the U. S. Government, he began his famed food experiments on human beings. In his Bureau, he formed a "poison squad" of volunteers-12 gallant youths from the clerical force who swore to eat nothing beyond the curious diet he daily administered to them. He fed them on advertised foods that contained boracic acid, sulfates, benzoates...
...Leeds, England, 100 years ago, that Joseph Aspdin discovered that a new building material could be produced by mixing pulverized lime and clay in correct proportions and driving out the carbonic acid gas with heat. Aspdin was not a chemist or scientist; and his momentous discovery was made by accidental experimentation. Up until 1872, there was not a Portland cement plant in this country. Today the U. S. industry represents a capital investment of over $300,000,000, employs from 25,000 to 40,000 men, produces annually 25,000,000 tons of cement...
...MIRACLE-Religion put up in wholesale lots by the master chemist of stage spectacle, Max Reinhardt...
Among the renowned were: Sir Robert Robertson, chief Government chemist of Great Britain; Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell; Sir Max Muspratt, onetime Lord Mayor of Liverpool, foremost British indus- trial engineer; Dr. J. S. McHargue, head of the Kentucky Agricultural Station; T. A. Boyd of the General Motors Corporation; Professor H. Steenbock, chemical research head of the University of Wisconsin; Professor E. C. C. Baly, famed savant of the University of Liverpool. In the chair was Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, President of the Society, a man who invents. He has discovered processes for the separation of copper and cadmium...