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...highly paid chief of soyabean research for Chicago's Glidden Co. In that job and earlier, Percy Julian, the grandson of an Alabama slave, had made world-famous chemical discoveries. They ranged from processes for the synthetic manufacture of important body-regulating hormones (e.g., testosterone, progesterone) to a foam fire extinguisher which saved many U.S. naval vessels in World...
SOMEWHERE AT SEA, May 12 (Delayed)--"Titanic" was the word used by Admiral Cummer von Bund to describe the annual CRIMSON-Lampoon war games run off today. In the midst of battle, her decks awash, her superstructure stove in, the U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington sank beneath the foam carrying those aboard to a watery bier. "I never thought she'd go down," murmured Able Bodied Seaman Donald Crestfallen...
...University owns many extinguishers that are not of the conventional soda and acid variety. They are of the dry powder, carbon tetrachloride, and chemical foam types...
Yesterday's fire was described by an observer as being "slow, stubborn, and smoky." It begin at approximately 1 p.m. yesterday afternoon and was still smouldering 11 hours later. Over 1,000 gallons of soy bean foam were poured into the blaze...
Among the items that Grand Rapids figured the public was ready to bid for right away: cork-topped dining-room tables, streamlined rockers, foam-rubber easy chairs, spreading couches and coffee tables slung low enough to fit under modern picture-windows...