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Carver had one great objective: to free the South from industrial bondage to the North. With tools originally assembled from scrapheap oddments, he developed more than 300 synthetic products from peanuts, including cheese, soap, flour and linoleum, and more than 100 products from the sweet potato. "I go into the laboratory," he once said, "and God tells me what...
Died. Dr. George Washington Carver, most famed Negro scientist; in Tuskegee, Ala. His age was uncertain: he was born of slaves about 1864. Coal-black, sad-eyed, fragile, white-polled, he spent most of his life in his Tuskegee Institute laboratory (originally assembled from scrapheap oddments) exploiting the possibilities of the soybean, peanut, sweet potato and cotton. From the peanut he developed more than 300 synthetic products (including cheese, soap, flour, ink, medicinal oils), from the sweet potato more than 100 (including tapioca, shoe polish, imitation rubber). "When I get an inspiration," he once explained simply, "I go into...
When Secretary Edison testified before a Congressional committee last year, he observed that the back yard of every industrial laboratory was piled high with discarded specimens. Said he of airships: "I don't think our scrapheap is big enough...
...Marlborough, the Emperor of India and the Benbow (all antiquated battleships) will be scrapped at once, announced the Admiralty. On the scrapheap also goes the battle cruiser Tiger...
...Every motor car would be headed for the scrapheap; every loudspeaker would be silent; every telephone would 'go dead'; every electric light would go out. The gloveless surgeon would be unable to perform his life-saving operations. . . . Contemporary man could not get along. . . . Life would be devoid of half its conveniences and comforts...