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Speaking of such events we watch Mrs. Dye and Mrs. Busby dutifully watching for their husbands at the end of the pay line last week and wondered if they didn't bring some of the stark reality of married life home to those contemplating the step in June...

Author: By Larry Hyde, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 6/8/1945 | See Source »

...news of the leave is, of course, that only one man took advantage of the opportunity to increase his rent and subsistence by virtue of a dependent. Congratulations to Ens. Dye...

Author: By Larry Hyde, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 3/30/1945 | See Source »

...those who live in "sunny" by distant California. Of course, now is the time when Professor Hanson's prediction of a dire fate for 60 percent of us will be put to the acid test. Those far away lights in the eyes of B. A. Johnson and "Dreamer" Dye, Ensigns, SC, portend something to those who know. We've also noticed a few wistful glances on Archie Aiken's face recently; could it be that he also is planning to surprise us with something hitherto unheard of in his rigorous life? All in all the prospects look so pleasant...

Author: By Larry Hyde, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 3/6/1945 | See Source »

...suboceanic ribs under these deposits. Ewing has already discovered sand ripples in ocean bottoms as deep as 600 feet, indicating previously unsuspected currents. To pursue a theory that cold water moves along the ocean bottom from the poles to the equator, Ewing plans to photograph the movement of dye released on the ocean floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Bottom of the Sea | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Beetle Blaster. Last week the developers of DDT, Geigy Co., Inc., an old dye firm with branches in Switzerland and New York, told reporters in Manhattan how the chemical was discovered. Like penicillin, DDT was known long before its usefulness was appreciated. A complicated chemical (full name: dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane), whose chief ingredients are chlorine, alcohol and sulfuric acid, DDT was first synthesized in 1874 by a German student named Othmar Zeidler. He had no idea of its possibilities as an insecticide, dismissed his discovery in six lines in a German chemical journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: DDT | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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