Word: chemistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Joyce found that the Germans were using soybean oil in paint, he built a soybean processing plant, used the oil himself and sold the meal to animal-feed manufacturers. To develop new soybean products, Joyce hired Dr. Percy Julian, a Negro chemist from DePauw University. The choice was good; Julian was the first to mass-produce sex hormones from soybeans successfully, gained further fame in World War II by developing a fire-fighting foam to smother gasoline and oil fires...
...asked Radio Corp. of America to design a special apparatus to copy pages from books or bound periodicals and send them quickly over a wire. Last week the new high-speed "facsimile transmitter" started working. A chemist at Y-12 site called the library at X-10 site and asked for a two-page article in a chemical journal. In 4½ minutes a copy came out of a receiving apparatus at Y12. No matter how hot the copy might get, it need never contaminate...
There was something oddly inanimate about jail-pallid, soft-eyed little Chemist Harry Gold, 39, as he walked into a Philadelphia courtroom last week to face sentence as an atomic spy. He had a strained, unhealthy air and he sat almost immobile, with his eyes straight ahead...
Gold's attorney rose to plead for mercy and to point out that the little chemist, since his arrest, had given the FBI information which led to the arrests of other Soviet agents in the U.S. The lawyer was Philadelphia's squarejawed, conservative John D. M. Hamilton, onetime Republican National Chairman...
...concerned, famed Chemist Harold C. Urey told University of Miami students, his own study of the universe "leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life...