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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vertebra, watches his team from a swivel chair: "If most student affairs were run as cleanly as football, there'd be little to worry about. I've been through college myself, and I know the graft connected with college publications, for instance, is on such a scale that it would put Tammany Hall to shame...
...Academy departed from that tradition, awarded the 1931 chemistry prize jointly to two Germans whose outstanding work has been the commercialization of scientific processes developed in research laboratories. They were Professor Carl Bosch of Heidelberg, chairman of the I. G. Farbenindustrie (dye trust)-for his process for large-scale production of ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen-and his fellow townsman, Professor Friedrich Bergius-for his work in obtaining gasoline from coal. For the Nobel Prize in Physics the Academy could agree on no one, postponed the award until next year...
...British capital, operating under strictest of colonial regimes, rapidly rose to lead the Africans. U. S. producers have to dig deep when they prospect new veins but Katanga's ore lies so close to the surface they do their prospecting by airplane. Labor costs are on a like scale. A Bantu boy working hard in Katanga's opencut mines gets about $5 a month. Production costs come to about 4?per Ib. African mines can deliver copper in England or the U. S. for about 7?-the present world price, ruinous to most other producers...
Their smallness does not permit them to operate effectively at the stage to which college education has now advanced. More money will do little good. The only way in which they can regain their usefulness is by combining until they reach the large scale which education now requires...
...rubber, but so far it has not been produced in a form sufficiently pliable for use in automobile tires. Du Pont officials believed that in spite of the present low price of rubber (about 5^ per Ib.) Duprene would have enough uses to warrant its production on a large scale, could be developed to replace natural rubber entirely in case the U. S. supply were shut off. In addition to Duprene, an artificial latex (mother liquid of rubber) was also produced from chloroprene which can impregnate porous materials that real latex cannot penetrate...