Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Babcock Keyes of the University of Illinois told the chemists at Chicago that the process is practicable. He invented it, although other scientists academic and industrial have worked on the problem and made reports in scientific journals. Professor Keyes' pronouncements always carry weight. Onetime (1924-26) director of research for the U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co., he is generally listed among the 175 leading chemists of the U. S. His assistant in the aluminum research was Dr. Sherlock Swan...
Motor Gasoline. Dr. Gustave Egloff, research director of Universal Oil Products Co. of Chicago, declared that motorists could save 3,000,000,000 gallons of gasoline and this year $400,000,000 if motor vehicle makers made their motors for higher compression...
Upon the claims of cigaret makers that smokers know their favorite brands by taste, research from Reed Institute at Portland, Oregon, last week, cast doubt. P. Lorillard Tobacco Co. (Old Gold) in particular has been illustrating its extensive advertisements with photographs of famed persons choosing Old Golds while blindfolded from among other brands. Reed Institute laboratory tests by one Louis Goodman, graduate student, however, show that only once in nine times on the average does one recognize his favorite cigaret whether he is blindfolded...
...Hideyo Noguchi, native of Japan, researcher in yellow fever for the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, died in West Africa, of yellow fever (TIME, May 21 et seq.). People called him a martyr to science. He left an estate of only $12,000. Last week, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research announced that it would award a suitable pension to the widow of Martyr Noguchi. Another distinguished yellow fever worker is Dr. Aristides Agramonte, native of Havana, Cuba. He is the sole surviving member of the heroic Army Commission of the U. S., which in 1900 went into Cuba determined...
...Research indicates that sauerkraut, despite its Teutonic name, originated not in Germany but in Asia. Tartars ate it first, introduced it to the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe, who fed it to their German friends, who brought it to the U. S., where it was first made commercially in St. Louis. Some physicians recommend sauerkraut for constipation, intestinal putrefaction, because the lactic acid responsible for the sour taste keeps down the birthrate of putrefying bugs. * Furfural, a chemical compound made from corncobs or oat hulls, once a museum curiosity, is now used in the preparation of synthetic resin as bakelite...