Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists and president of the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, was suspicious of white bread. Dr. Carlson pointed an accusing finger at nitrogen trichloride, a bleaching agent used in 90% of all white flour milled in the U.S. The bleaching agent makes wheat protein act like a nerve poison; dogs given large amounts of the bleached flour developed running fits. It may make people nervous, too, reported Dr. Carlson-and may even make it easier for them to become alcoholics. Said he: "Maybe we should provide, without delay, more iron in the education...
Tuskegee planned the ceremony to launch a $2,000,000 endowment campaign for its famed science research center, the Carver Foundation; now it needs $150,000 more to cope with a disaster. A month ago, many of the laboratories and most of the museum of the Carver Foundation, which Scientist Carver had built over the years, were destroyed by fire. Many of his exhibits and all but three of the 48 paintings he had left behind were gone, but Tuskegee plans to rebuild the Carver laboratories to carry on his work...
Little Perfex Co. of Shenandoah, Iowa, had a big idea. Perfex wanted a synthetic starch that would come bottled, ready for use, and make starching as simple as washing. Since Perfex had no research staff, it laid the problem in the lap of Kansas City's Midwest Research Institute. Six weeks later, Midwest's chemists came up with "Gloss Tex." Perfex is now busy shipping hundreds of barrels of this new synthetic starch...
Nichols raised $500,000 from merchants, manufacturers and civic leaders, started with an abandoned firehouse, later bought five buildings and a 160-acre experimental lot. Harold Vagtborg was hired away from the Armour Research Foundation to head Midwest, and his staff of physicists, chemists, engineers soon had a list of impressive achievements...
This week, Midwest celebrates its third anniversary with a 1948 prospect of a new $1,000,000 laboratory building and a $600,000 appropriation for research. Most of this will be spent in developing agricultural products that might create new industries. The Institute's work on sorghum as a source for dextrose and starches has already paid that kind of a dividend. Its new processes will help Corn Products Refining Co. refine some 6,000,000 bushels of sorghum a year in a projected $16,000,000 plant at Corpus Christi...