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...Most notorious artistic collaboration was Vichy Minister of Education Abel Bonnard's gift to Hermann Göring of the Van Eycks' famed Ghent altarpiece, Adoration of the Lamb...
Died. Dr. Leo Hendrik" Baekeland, 80, father of plastics; in Beacon, N.Y. In 1909 courtly, dignified, Belgian-born Baekeland invented Bakelite (oxybenzyl-methylenglycolanhydride) - the first successful, noninflammable, synthetic solid. He got his start in 1880 when, as the youngest student at the University of Ghent, he developed Velox paper, a photographic milestone which killed tintypes and netted him a reputed $1,000,000 from Eastman Kodak. Baekeland made possible the "improbable sandwich" (plywood) by his work in 1912 on a synthetic resin filler. He was also honored for : separation of cadmium and copper, oxidation of hydrochloric acid under light, dissociation...
...quick dash up the roads to any threatened point in the Brest-St.-Malo-Cherbourg sector. Another is stationed near Amiens, has the Havre-Dieppe-Boulogne line to back up (last week it dashed to Dieppe to meet the Canadians). The third is reported to be quartered at Ghent, covers the Calais-Ostend-Flushing zone...
...divisions dropped off to strengthen the sides of the corridor. Already Reichenau (who was at the centre in Poland and performed the final closing of the bloody envelopment of Kutno) was driving on Lille. Küchler (who commanded the German left in the Polish massacre) was pressing through Ghent...
They went virtually intact, and without pressure, toward positions along the Escaut River in front of Ghent, Lille, Lens...