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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Norman Rockwell, illustrator (Saturday Evening Post covers); by Mrs. Irene O'Connor Rockwell; at Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty and neglect. Straightway she married one Francis Hartley. Jr., chemist, of Belmont, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...leggers had learned how to "cook out" milder denaturants. What Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman called "a last resource" was the change in Formula 44-A: 100 gal. grain alcohol, 4 gal. wood alcohol (replacing 2 gal. gasoline), 10 gal. fusel oil or amyl alcohol. Chief Chemist William Vanarsdale Linder of the Prohibition Unit explained that alcohol thus denatured was only for the varnish and lacquer industry, not for the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Formula 44-A | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

Last week Professor Joseph Christie Whitney Frazer, 54, of Johns Hopkins University, felt the intimation of such fortune. He is a chemist who has made a thoroughgoing study of gas adsorption and of catalysts. His knowledge he recently applied to motor exhaust CO, inventing a way of detoxicating it. What his process is he refused to explain publicly last week. A patent was not yet granted. In effect, he has found a catalyst which will quickly, cheaply, thoroughly get CO turned into C02 before it leaves the automobile. The catalyst is placed in the exhaust pipe line. How best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Motor Exhaust Detoxicator | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

James Medbery MacKaye is professionally a chemist. For 23 years he was with Stone & Webster, Boston engineers. In leisure time he wrote such books as The Economy of Happiness, The Politics of Utility, The Happiness of Nations, Americanized Socialism, The Logic of Conduct. Five years ago he quit Stone & Webster, and moved from stuffy Cambridge, Mass.. to sylvan Hanover, N. H. To students of Dartmouth, where he is a visiting lecturer in philosophy, he is an aloof though smiling mystery who teaches them how to think clearly, argue effectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dynamic Universe | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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