Word: polination
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When word of Polin's experiments leaked out, President Vargas appointed a committee to invite Polin to Brazil, try to develop commercial production of his plastics. Upshot: an agreement under which Polin has leased his patents to the Brazilian Government for 15 years, will serve as technical adviser at plants built by the Government...
Herbert Spencer Polin, a young (32) scientist whose home office is a laboratory on the 71st floor of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, got interested in coffee five years ago when Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. hired him for research on roasting methods. Finding that coffee contains all the chemical components of plastics, he went to work on his own to develop a process for combining them...
...cook the remainder under pressure in the presence of a catalyst. The result is cafelite, a dark brown powder which can be colored like other plastics, can be used to make anything from ashtrays to building materials. Out of a Brazilian bag of coffee (132 lb.) the Polin process makes 70 lb. of cafelite, 1 lb. of caffeine, plus smaller amounts of other byproducts, including vitamins...
...Polin, who studied science at various universities without ever bothering to take a degree, has patented about 100 inventions, including an ultra-high frequency radio telephone service used on Navy dirigibles and a remote control device for radios and oil burners. He now works at a new laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, collects sport clothes and pipes (he has a standing order with Dunhill Co. for any new models they turn out). Without benefit of title or speechmaking he has become the favorite U.S. ambassador of good will to Brazil...