Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, last fortnight, Professor Emanuel Goldberg, German photographic chemist, announced that he had found a grainless emulsion for films which makes it possible to take a photograph the size of a pinpoint (.01 sq. millimeter) and greatly enlarge it with perfect reproduction of detail...
With the chemistry chair at Purdue went the job of chemist for the State of Indiana. To the Indiana Board of Health, Dr. Harvey Wiley made the first reports of food adulteration ever made to a U. S. state board. He agitated vigorously. He left Purdue in 1883 to become chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture...
Manufacturers of foodstuffs fought him bitterly. As chief U. S. chemist he fought with every bludgeon and ruse he could for the passage of Federal pure food laws. In 1906 Congress passed such laws. In the administrations of Presidents Roosevelt and Taft the opposition became climactic. Both Presidents sustained Dr. Wiley. He resigned in 1912, after downing hecklers...
Vollbehr is eccentric German tycoon- Dr. Otto H. F. Vollbehr, onetime chemist, onetime China sugar trader. Injured in a Turkish railroad accident, he was advised to adopt a hobby to aid his recuperation, chose collecting European books printed before...
...under one head, of investigation and prosecution of liquor violators could the law be fully enforced (TIME, Jan. 27). The Secretary of the Treasury retained his pre-Prohibition powers over permits for industrial alcohol. When his Treasury post of Prohibition Commissioner vanished under the new law, James Maurice Doran, chemist, became Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol in the Treasury Department...