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...dinosaurs suddenly died off, leaving dominance of the earth to smaller, warm-blooded mammals. One theory is that the great die-off was caused by a sudden change of climate. Another is that the slow-witted, blundering dinosaurs could not cope with mammals that destroyed their eggs. Biochemist Albert Schatz of National Agricultural College, Doylestown, Pa. has a third theory: that the evolution of modern plants was the death of the dinosaurs...
According to Dr. Schatz, the dinosaurs were sluggish beasts whose metabolism (vital chemical processes) was so slow that they could keep their vast bodies alive without a great deal of food. In their age, he thinks, the earth's atmosphere did not contain so much oxygen as it does today. The dominant plants were mostly gymnosperms (conifers, ginkgoes, etc.) that did not excrete so much oxygen as modern plants...
...tent was gone and 169 people, two-thirds of them children, were dead or fatally injured. Last week, ten years to the day after the fire, Bridgeport's Superior Court Judge John T. Cullinan ordered the circus to pay $100,000 in legal fees to Julius B. Schatz. Hartford attorney who had served as legal counsel during a decade of receivership. When the fee is paid, the litigation that followed the greatest tragedy in circus history will be closed...
...Medical Researcher Dr. Albert Schatz, 33, professor at Pennsylvania's National Agricultural College, for his role in the discovery of the wonder drug, streptomycin (TIME...
Under last week's settlement, Dr. Waksman's original 20% of the earnings on the drug will hereafter be divided between himself (10%), Dr. Schatz (3%) and 14 other collaborating scientists. Dr. Schatz will receive a flat $125,000 for his share in the foreign sales. Special bonuses will be handed out to a group of twelve helpful laboratory workers, including the widow of a lab dishwasher who died last year. The Rutgers Research and Endowment Foundation, which had largely financed the work, and controls the patents, will continue to collect the lion's share-about...