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Baly records some curious experiments. In his laboratory in 1928 he achieved the photosynthesis of formaldehyde, glucose, starch, other organic compounds in a test-tube solution of carbon dioxide. As a catalyst he used nickel carbonate instead of chlorophyll (which no chemist has yet got to work outside the veins of plants). But neither Baly nor any other chemist, using identical methods, has ever succeeded in repeating the experiment...
Baly next succeeded in laboratory photosynthesis with nickel oxide. He is much impressed by similarities between his nickel-catalyzed photosynthesis and the natural chlorophyll-catalyzed process. Both act alike under variations of light and temperature...
...when he formed the Gerity-Adrian Mfg. Corp. (Adrian, Mich.). From 17 employes to begin with, he reached a peak of 960 early this year, plating door handles and radiator trimmings for automobiles, household hardware, etc. His basic manufacturing process reads like a roster of scarce materials: he uses nickel anodes for chrome-plating zinc die castings, which can't be made without aluminum. His best customer: General Motors, whose A. C. Spark Plug Co. can make die castings for G.M. from the scrap aluminum that other G.M. plants produce in the course of manufacturing, and from the zinc...
...passed the Connally amendment to the draft act, which gave the President specific authority to seize defense plants when mediation fails and a labor dispute threatens to tie up the arms program. Already passed by the House was a gigantic Army appropriation bill with a provision that not one nickel of the money should go to companies or workers who defied recommendations of the Mediation Board. And the Department of Justice was reported to be planning to blacklist radicals and advise employers to kick them...
...Physicist Edlen demonstrated that the corona probably consists mostly of heavier elements like iron, calcium, nickel. This was a big surprise to astronomers. Surprise No. 2 was Edlen's calculation that this high excitation which causes such heavy atoms to give off new spectrum lines must indicate coronal temperatures...