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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the blackamoors had a highly unsavage awareness of what they wanted, a dangerously efficient organization. Because of the poll tax increase, they wanted more pay. Their anger was against the poor Government, not against rich Roan. Last week the black mob swarmed into Roan Antelope's mine compound at Luanshya, wrecked it, turned to the company offices, demolished them, swarmed toward the power house. The white police advanced. An officer gave the command to fire. The corpses of six kinky-polled blacks were left behind in the dust after their fellows had stampeded away. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Roan Blacks | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...rest of the contents are more or less stereotyped although the collaring, of the states maps in particular, is carefully arranged to make reading easy and to, avoid confusion. The one mistake seems to be that the compound maps showing currents and altitudes are too complicated to be properly legible but that can be overlooked in the excellence of the rest of the work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 5/14/1935 | See Source »

...years chemists tried to make synthetic rubber by picking latex apart, deciding what it was composed of, reassembling the elements. It might have been better to look for a compound which would serve the purpose of rubber rather than duplicate its composition. The synthetic rubber which grew out of the Nieuwland researches is 40% chlorine, not an ingredient of natural rubber at all. At a chemistry symposium in Rochester, during the winter of 1925, Father Nieuwland read a paper on the formation of divinyl acetylene from acetylene and cuprous ammonium chloride. Du Font's Dr. Elmer K. Bolton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tercentenary | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...extent, influences continued to be sure, but they were of a superficial and passing nature. Russia no longer had to go to school to Western Europe." By 1841 Turgenev, Dostorevsky, and Tolstoi were beginning their careers, so that Russia was really in a fair way to writing off, at compound interest, her debt to England and the rest of her European creditors...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 4/11/1935 | See Source »

Then in Leyden, Professor W. J. de Haas turned to another magnetic com- pound, containing potassium, chromium, alum. Last week he revealed that he had taken a huge bite from the tiny distance remaining. His compound was .0002° C. above Absolute Zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Approach to Absolute | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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