Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the fact that he had been one of the defeated candidates himself, P. R.'s "father," public-spirited Chemist William Jay Schieffelin, and such P. R. enthusiasts as Liberal Lawyer Morris Ernst remained stubbornly faithful to their device. They pointed out that with experienced counters Cincinnati had cut its counting time to a week and Cleveland to three days. If the city would authorize the voting machines for which Tammany's late board of estimate refused to appropriate $2,000.000. they claimed that P. R. ballots might be disposed of in one day. That Tammany...
...quality to wool. Princess Caetani calls herself lanital's "social representative" in the U. S. A familiar milk product is casein, of which in the U. S, alone 46,140,000 pounds were produced last year, mostly for the paper industry. Some 20 years ago a German chemist named Todtenhaupt made a weak wool-like cloth from casein. In 1935 an Italian, Commendatore Antonio Ferretti, improved the process, which was promptly commandeered by Mussolini as one way of combatting sanctions. Snia Viscosa is now turning out almost 10,000,000 pounds of lanital a year. Having practically the same...
...wool business what rayon had done to the silk. U. S. woolmen, absorbed with more immediate troubles (see p. 75) last week produced no retort to this other than the findings year and half ago published in the bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers by Chief Chemist Von Bergen of the Forstmann Woolen Co.-that casein-wool "resembles a highly damaged wool and its main disadvantages are a very low tensile strength and its reaction to acid...
...With the help of King's friends, he traced the history of the vitamin in scientific journals. Dr. King's work, well-known and highly regarded among biochemists, was described two years ago in Outposts of Science, an omnibus of science for laymen by Bernard Jaffe (a chemist himself). Jaffe unequivocally credited King and his coworker, William A. Waugh, with first obtaining the pure vitamin: "On April 4, 1932, after seven years of continuous work, King finally isolated fifty milligrams from one litre of lemon juice, and identified the pure crystals. . . . Before scientists gathered at a meeting...
...America. Both men are heavy smokers and some three years ago they got to discussing some means of eliminating nicotine. Mr. Davis thought of an aluminum holder with a filter of activated alumina, an absorbent much used in chemistry. This proved too expensive, but in the experiments Aluminum Co. Chemist R. B. Derr noticed that butts of the cigarets in contact with aluminum were always soggy and black with absorbed nicotine and tar. This was because tobacco is itself one of the best possible nicotine absorbers and because aluminum's sensitivity to temperature makes it condense the fumes quickly...