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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road-binding material, lignin is widely used in New Jersey and Washington instead of tarry binders. This use was developed in the U.S. about 1905 by Jacob Robeson, pioneer industrial student of lignin. Robeson Process Co., unlike Marathon, removes lignin from pulp wastes by evaporation rather than by precipitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Greatest Waste | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...Jacob L ("Jakie") Webb, playful descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, turned up in the Army, at Fort Meade, Md. He had been missing since the middle of October, shortly after he wed café-daffy Leonore Lemmon. A rubber-check charge long pending against him has been dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Married. Virginia Middleton French, sister of Mrs. John Jacob Astor; and William Force Dick, son of the late Madeleine Force Astor Dick; in Manhattan. The bride's father is Francis Ormond French, blue-blood maverick who worked in 1923 as a cab driver, applied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 29, 1941 | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Other new officers who will take over their positions on March 1, when the first issue of the Advocate for 1942 comes out are. Roland D. Thompson '43, secretary, John Crockett '43, pegasue, George W. Goothal 2nd '43, Frederlok A. Jacob '43, and Bruce D. Phemister '44, editors, Harold W. Smith '44, circulation manager, and John B. Bottomly '43, Business Manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Elects officers; Barton Named '42 President | 12/12/1941 | See Source »

Wryly echoed Major General Jacob L. Devers, boss of the Armored Force: "We were licked by a set of umpires' rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Second Battle of the Carolinas | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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