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Mere driblets came from mines in South Dakota and New Mexico. Most of the U.S. supply was flown in from Brazil, with a higher priority (A1) than admirals. Belgian Congo and Australia produced some tantalite ore, but shipping difficulties made it hard to get. Now a new source had been...
Died. Thomas Midgley Jr., 55, discoverer of tetraethyl lead for antiknock gasoline, vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp., president of the American Chemical Society; of accidental strangulation, by a self-devised harness for getting in & out of bed since he was invalided in 1940 by infantile paralysis; in Worthington. Ohio...
Died. Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, 80, British geologist, co-discoverer with Charles Dawson of the Piltdown skull, long believed England's oldest, near-human fossil (circa 100,000 B.C.); in Haywards Heath, Sussex.
The discoverer was Dr. R. von Koenigswald of The Netherlands Indies Geological Survey. No word has come from or of him since the Japanese took Java in 1942. But Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, piecing together what he had learned of Koenigswald'...
A great cheer to Arthur Cremin, who has sent $1,000 to. Dr. Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, through TIME [May 29]. Perhaps this noble gesture will attract the attention of the chemical companies who will commercialize and market this "wonder drug" and make them realize that it would...