Word: duisberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ruhr was occupied on the ground that Germany wilfully defaulted in delivery of reparations. According to the London Agreement of last year (TIME, Aug. 25), the Ruhr was to have been evacuated by Aug. 15, 1925. Düsseldorf, Duisberg and Ruhrort in Rhennish Prussia and not in the Ruhr (Westphalia) are also to be evacuated by that date...
...Jarres is joint candidate of the Nationalists (Monarchists), German People's Party (Stresemann's group), Freedom Party (Ludendorff's Party), Bavarian People's Party (mainly Catholic Monarchists). Dr. Jarres is 51 years of age, a lawyer by profession and from 1914 to 1923 Mayor of Duisberg. Late in 1923, he became Minister of the Interior in the Stresemann Government and held the same post and the Vice Chancellorship last year in the Marx Government. Upon the advent of Chancellor Luther to power, he once again became Mayor of Duisberg...
Synthetic rubber, long a goal of the "creative chemists," was successfully produced by Duisberg, the German chemist, and Perkin, the Englishman, some years ago. But the processes were not commercially practicable. Now Plotnikoff, also from Germany, has found a feasible formula. A uranium salt, used in conjunction with sunlight, produces an effect similar to, but much cheaper than, ultraviolet rays. The action of these rays on vinyl chloride made from acetylene, results in caoutchoue chloride, which can easily be converted into rubber. The American Association for the Advancement of Science, foreseeing the immense importance of knowing how to utilize...