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...president of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Kent) in 1950, then resigned to "regain his health" last May (TIME, May 11), went back into the advertising business as chairman of the board of St. Louis' D'Arcy Advertising Co., 16th biggest U.S. ad company. ¶ Marlin G. Geiger, 56, was elected president of the Davison Chemical Corp. to succeed R. L. Hockley, who resigned to become vice president of Mathieson Chemical Corp. Educated as a chemical engineer, Geiger was a vice president of Westvaco Chemical Corp. and United Chemicals, Inc., and president of W. Va. Charcoal Co. before...
...laboratory workers can often be found sitting between troughs of sudsy water, an arm resting in each, to see how the skin reacts to different soaps and detergents. Clothes are soiled with radioactive dirt, "Geiger-counted" after every washing. Researchers work daily on such questions as: What holds dirt on cloth and skin? What do suds accomplish? (Mainly, they accomplish sales. Nonsuds-ing detergents often work just as well, but many women won't buy them...
With $1,000 borrowed from his mother in 1948, Steen packed his wife and three children off to southeastern Utah, where there are uranium mines. He "sniffed around" without the help of a Geiger counter, finally staked out claims on a high sandstone ridge in the Big Indian district near Cisco-land which AEC had officially declared "barren of possibilities." Time after time Charlie got promises of money to help develop his property, but when people took a closer look, they always backed out. The Steens lived on oatmeal and beans; the only meat they had was venison which Charlie...
...from one old friend, borrowed $100 from another and bought a secondhand drilling rig. On his first try, at a depth of 73 feet, the rig broke down. Steen, who had no money to buy a Geiger counter, borrowed one from a friend to test a sample of the greyish black rock brought up by the drill. The needle nearly jumped from the dial of the instrument. "We've found it!" cried Charlie. "We've found a million dollars...
...days later, and again after four months, tests with a tiny dose of radioactive iodine and a Geiger counter showed that the oddly placed thyroid was functioning. Irma Miller has needed no more thyroid extract or calcium injections. She is going to be married, and Dr. Sterling is going to give the bride away...