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...which is easily liquefied under pressure to form the basic building-blocks of most synthetic rubbers. Butadiene molecules were first polymerized-or built up into larger molecules-with the help of metallic sodium, making a stretchy substance which its German inventors about 1927 called Buna (Bu for butadiene, Na for sodium). It was not a very satisfactory synthetic: but better than the methyl rubber (dimethyl butadiene) of World War I, when it was said German Army trucks often had to be jacked up overnight so that their solid tires would not flatten out permanently under their weight. German chemists soon...
...Na Bala Tem (In Babia...
...illegal" confiscation of his property in Germany, the fact that no cause had been assigned for the death of his sister's son-in-law in the concentration camp of Dachau. He finally wrote a letter of categorical denunciation to Adolf Hitler in which he stated, with magnificent naïveté, his "assumption that this letter shall not be withheld from the German people...
These spectators are a sultry, mercifully drawn set: a restive wife, her sullen husband; his aged, beak-nosed, naïvé father, dreaming of youth in India; his delicate old aunt, cherishing a crucifix between her bony hands; an assortment of eligible neighbors. The pageant they have come to see is a half-talented, half-parodied hodgepodge which in actual performance would have been sad, silly, and typically British, but which, in Mrs. Woolf's hairline contexts, is moving...
...Louis is no saint, the build-up worked for four reasons : 1) the astuteness of Joe's managers; 2) the promotional genius of Mike Jacobs and his Hearst henchmen; 3) the change in the U.S. attitude toward Negroes since Jack Johnson's day; 4) Joe's naïveté, natural reserve and disinterest in liquor and tobacco. By the time Louis climbed into the ring to fight Camera, he was a living legend to his people: a black Moses leading the children of Ham out of bondage...