Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Research, Development, Manufacturing Chemist Medford, Mass...
This inventive work goes on at the Uni-versity of Virginia, under direction of Professor Lyndon Frederick Small, organic chemist. By last week he had produced more than 200 variations of morphine and sent them to his research-partner at the University of Michigan, Professor Nathan Browne Eddy, pharmacologist. Dr. Eddy tries the substitute drugs on rats, dogs and monkeys. He has found that several morphine substitutes invented by Dr. Small and others are better than morphine because they cause less vomiting and constipation, depress respiration less than does morphine. But "whether any of the substances possess addicting properties...
Pudgy Jim Thomas started his career as an errand boy in a chemist's shop, became a wiper in a locomotive yard, later helped organize the railwaymen's union. It was Jim Thomas who made it possible for British railway employes to have the highest wage scale of any union in the realm. With James Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden, Thomas was one of the founders of the British Labor Party. In the House of Commons since 1910, he has served as a Cabinet Minister for the past seven years...
...lack of New Deal animosity. A good many sessions were devoted to familiar Chemurgician products like soy beans, tung oil (for paint), Jerusalem artichokes (for alcohol), slash pine (for paper). A "Pioneer Cup" was awarded to Leo Hendrik Baekeland, father of the plastic industry (Bakelite), though that aging chemist did not bother to come out of his Florida retirement to receive it in person. Mr. Garvan delivered his usual harangue in favor of blending alcohol with gasoline. But most of the speakers were either technical experts or working vice presidents of corporations in the organic chemistry field, and they stuck...
...Chief Chemist, Union Starch & Refining...