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...Wheeling, W. Va., a 16-year-old student rifled a high-school soda shop and took away $4 in nickels. Police easily trailed him to his home, two blocks from the school. Reason: he had a hole in his pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 6, 1939 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Director Durfee got in a supply of scientifically bred white rats whose pictures duly appeared in the News alongside Murderer Robert Irwin, Spy Johanna Hofmann, the Duchess of Windsor. Following methods suggested by earlier experiments in Germany and England he douched female rats with 2% or 3% bicarbonate of soda solution to get male offspring, with 1% or 2% lactic acid solution to get females, then mated them as quickly as possible. In forty-two litters since last July, Director Durfee has reported 100% success in predetermining the predominant sex. Rat A845 (see cut) was douched once with lactic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Oh, Rats | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...bomb consisted of a soda bottle filled with gun-powder, buckshot, and newspaper. There was a fuse attached to the explosives, but the fuse was a piece of string which burned out before the fire reached the bottle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystery Bomb Found on Stair Of Mass. Ave. Establishment | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...year. Mimeographs whir endlessly with their press handouts, which are sorted and clipped together at electrical revolving tables, rushed by messenger to a battered table in the lobby of the National Press Club. There, any afternoon, correspondents hurrying in for a 5 o'clock whiskey & soda can run through an assortment like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Information Men | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

From vast, subterranean Michigan streams Dow Chemical Co. pumps brackish water, produces aspirin, phenol, ammonia, chlorine. From the vast Pacific, Great Western Electro-Chemical Co. dredges salt, manufactures liquid chlorine, caustic soda, caustic potash. In a corporate chemical reaction last month these two companies decided to combine. Last week their stockholders approved the process. Catalyst of the consolidation was Willard Henry Dow, elder son of the late, great Chemist Herbert Henry Dow. No chemical genius but an efficient business executive, Willard Dow graduated from University of Michigan in 1919, went to work for his father as a department head, succeeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Corporate Catalysis | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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