Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheap process for making all kinds and grades of beef more tender was announced last week by Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. The process, sponsored and financed by Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., involves "hanging" the meat so that its enzymes may weaken and break-down the fibres and connective tissues that make meat tough. Ordinarily such hanging (to obtain a few very choice steaks) requires four to eight weeks under expensive cold-storage conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity...
...perturbed because engineers could not get jobs when they got their degrees, Mr. Murphy began a study of U. S. universities to see what could be done about founding a school that would give young engineers a better chance to find work. He was helped by General Motors' Research Director Charles Kettering and University of Cincinnati's Dean Herman Schneider, originator of a "cooperative" plan of engineering study...
...Jerger has a taste for Scotch & soda, a flair for anecdote, a willingness to think for himself. He once wrote to the hard-boiled sage of Baltimore, H. L. Mencken, suggesting that condemned criminals be given their choice of execution or submitting themselves as subjects for medical research. Mencken advised him that U. S. sentimentality would never stand for such a procedure...
Robert E. Whelan (pronounced "Whalen"), 22, research worker in the New York World's Fair press department, was at liberty last week. Reason: incoming telephone calls to him were sometimes given to Grover A. Whalen. Clerk Whelan was asked to change his name, refused, was fired...
Born 33 years ago in New York City, Wald attended New York and Columbia Universities. From 1932 to 1934, as a National Research Fellow, he served in the laboratories of some of the most famous biologists of Europe. Five years ago Wald came to Harvard as a Tutor in Biochemical Sciences, and the following year secured his present position in the Biology Department...