Word: electros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceremony last week. The medal is for "the American chemist who has most distinguished himself by his services to applied chemistry." In Dr. Burgess' case that refers to his showing factory managers that it pays to hire scholars. Twenty and more years ago he was professor of applied electro-chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Manufacturers hesitated to use his novel ideas concerning the electrolytic purification of iron, dry batteries, corrosion. He organized his own companies, his own industrial laboratory, quit the university. He now heads five corporations capitalized for $3,000,000, hiring...
Died. Lester Lonergan, 62, actor (Brass Ankle) who staged Abraham Lincoln, The Command to Love; of heart failure while-sitting on a porch with his wife at Lynn, Mass., discussing Eugene O'Neill's newtrilogy, Mourning Becomes Electro, in which he was to have played...
Norwegian industries at a standstill last week were: shipyards, textiles, leather, tobacco, pulp, paper, rubber, soap, shoes, electro-chemicals, chocolate, clothing, sawmills, building trades, electrical and printing industries...
...Williams Brothers' careers have been strikingly like those of the Brothers Cornpton- Karl Taylor, 43, and Arthur Holly, 38. The Comptons are the sons of the theologian president-emeritus of the College of Wooster. While Karl was teaching physics and studying electro-magnetic radiations at Princeton, Arthur studied the same subject there. Upon his elder brother's advice Arthur followed a path of physics which led him to a University of Chicago professorship and a Nobel Prize. Karl became president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...TIME in its Oct. 17 issue reported that Dr. Allen Buckner Kanavel, president of the American College of Surgeons, said that "The coagula tion caused by the [electro] cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them." TIME was misinformed. President Kanavel's opinion is "quite the opposite...