Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driving WPB Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson, TIME, NOVEMBER 22, 1943 who has been slashing away at politics, bureaucracy and Army red tape for 14 months, was planning to go back to his $175,000-a-year job as president of General Electric. Well aware that production of planes, rubber, radio and trucks still lags, Charlie Wilson also knew that he had successfully pulled U.S. production through. Said he: the big job is done; went back to General Electric. Also resigning : Hiland G. Batcheller, WPB operational vice chairman (back to Allegheny -Ludlum Steel Corp.). W. B. Murphy, WPB deputy production...
...chemistry the Russians have pioneered in the preparation and use of blood plasma, in synthetic rubber, photochemistry, explosives, helium, winter lubricants for tanks and planes. Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, famed virus investigator of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, told of a new Russian antiserum that has given the best results yet in preventing influenza. Soviet scientists have found ways to extract iodine cheaply from the foul waters of oilfields, sugar from watermelons, vitamin C from pine-tree needles for hungry Leningrad. Important contributions have been made to molecular physics, optics, electronics...
...with eight business leaders (including Eric A. Johnston, Benjamin F. Fairless, David Sarnoff) whose advice he will henceforth seek from time to time on postwar economic problems. Among the subjects he recommended to their study: reconversion, the future of U.S. synthetic-rubber plants, how to dispose of materials and plants owned by the Government...
...exceptionally well-informed about chemists. In a new book (The Chemical Front-Knopf, $3), Williams Haynes, ex-publisher of Chemical Industries and ex-editor of the Chemical Who's Who, this week told about some of the prodigious recent achievements of U.S. chemists. Many of them, in oil, rubber, drugs, are already familiar. But Haynes had some little-known facts to report...
What gives this ordinary little story its far-from-ordinary charm is its writing, direction, performance, its sympathetic handling of character. Not even the fortune-stalking Graf is a rubber stamp. His weak, deep pathos, as he reverently takes Jeannie's purse in charge, is as real as hers. Michael Redgrave is equally sound as the Englishman. The personnel of Vienna's Hotel Splendide is good enough to have come out of Bemelmans. But the real weight of Jeannie is carried (like a feather) by British Stage Actress Barbara Mullen, the clothes she wears, the lines she handles...