Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hailed as the No. i male cinema discov ery of 1938 for his performance as Mickey Borden in Four Daughters, Actor John Garfield is a blunt-featured young product of New York City's East Side and The Bronx. A problem child, he was sent at twelve to a school run by Angelo Patri, who allowed him to concentrate on dram atics and English...
...product of that excitement, fully described for the first time this week in FORTUNE, is a new process for deriving gasoline from crude oil rather than from lignite. It will not insure France's fuel supply but it seems likely to crack the oil-refining industry as wide open as oil refiners crack crude...
...countries. The catch has been that no permits for imports of U. S. automobiles, foodstuffs, tobacco, sporting goods, toys, etc. have been issued by the Government. General Motors Corp., for instance, with only a three months' supply of cars on hand in the Argentine, has quit advertising its product...
...three years the Committee on University Broadcasting has been arranging programs for Station WIXAL and the latest product of the Committee's high-brow ingenuity is "the Harvard University Series." Although designed to be of general educational interest, the program calls for professors from each of the graduate schools to discuss their work. And more and more these Harvard-trained Harvard professors have tended to stray from the main and to describe in detail how we do things here at Harvard. Despite its worthy goal, the Series is rapidly entering the twilight of advertising and is setting a dangerous precedent...
Chemical Clue. At the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Richmond, Va., 28-year-old Dr. Charles Frederick Code told of his researches on histamine. For them he was awarded the Theobald Smith award of $1,000. Histamine is an organic chemical, a product of protein decomposition. Scientists have long known that histamine is especially concentrated in the cells of the lungs, liver and skin, but they did not know where it came from...