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...everything from theater equipment and industrial controls to missile components. Link later became president of the parent company as well as retaining the chairmanship of the Link subsidiary. From an office in Manhattan, he keeps projects popping in G.P.E. plants spread from Pleasantville, N.Y. to Glendale, Calif., while Chairman Hermann Place, a money man, handles the financial end. From $123 million in 1954, sales rose to $185 million in 1957, but extraordinary research and development expenses on military contracts cut earnings from...
...marriage is not an exact science but, as Foch said of war, "a terrible and passionate drama." Widmerpool is a bouncing, uncivilized young City type whose political sagacity is expressed in his plan for averting World War II, then looming. The plan: give the Order of the Garter to Hermann Göring ("After all, it is what such things...
Enter Radiation. About this time a new thing happened to genetics. Since the beginning, geneticists had regretted the scarcity of mutated flies, corn. etc.. to work with. The scarcity ended in 1926 when Professor Hermann J. Muller. now of Indiana University, discovered that X rays applied to fruit flies or any other living organism, create a wealth of mutations, apparently by damaging the genes in their chromosomes. Muller, too, won a Nobel Prize, and soon most genetics laboratories had X-ray machines and were buzzing with dwarfed, twisted, crippled or half-alive fruit flies whose ancestors had been Xrayed...
...Canada Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, formerly Director General of the U.N. World Health Organization. In this country, in addition to Dr. Corliss Lamont '24, of the philosophical faculty of Columbia Univ., to whom I referred previously, there are--to mention only a few--such men as Dr. Hermann J. Muller, professor of zoology at the Univ. of Indiana, Nobel Laureate in medicine (genetics), now president of the American Humanist Association (A.H.A.); Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, Ass't Dean of the Medical School at Ohio State University, now vice-president of the A.H.A.; Dr. George Axtelle, professor of education...
Political Reasons. Indiana University's famed Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Dr. Hermann Muller, who had signed Pauling's stop-the-tests petition of 9,235 scientists (2,749 from Communist Rumania), staked out his view that while the scientific perils of fallout have been exaggerated, tests ought to be stopped for political reasons-"desirable for the easing of tensions...