Word: sseldorf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apropos seemed an editorial of last week in the Deutsche Bergwerks Zeitung of Düsseldorf, a paper generally considered the mouthpiece of one of the German delegates at Paris, Dr. Albert Voegler, Member of the Board of the Ruhr Steel Cartel...
Married. Dr. John A. Harriss, millionaire, traffic expert (originator of the light system for traffic control) onetime Deputy Police Commissioner, of Manhattan, secretly, two years ago to Miss Carolyn Montreux, of Manhattan; in Düsseldorf, Germany...
Correspondence from the Düsseldorf meeting of the Association of German Natural Scientists and Physicians (TIME, Oct. 4), described: in Berlin, the construction of two complete railway trains out of aluminum alloyed with lithium, which weighs one-fifth as much as aluminum and adds tensile strength; in Amsterdam, the isolation and administration of a specific hormone (ductless gland secretion) responsible for the physiology of female animals, by Professor Edward Laqueur, who called his find "menformon." The effect upon female laboratory animals: restored typical mating reactions in spayed (sterilized) specimens; enlarged organs; sped up physiological reactions. Administered to males...
...thousand German scientists tumbled into smoky Dösseldorf last week for the 89th congress of the Society of German Natural Philosophers and Physicians.* Whether they came in lace-ornamented first class coaches or in clattering fourth class vans, whether with leather portmanteaux or wicker lunch cases, whether smartly frocked or draggedly trousered-the ten thousand meant this congress to be the renaissance of a German culture, without the patina of which, in the years before the War, no student anywhere felt himself raised above shambling mediocrity...
...conferees cabled greetings to the scientific congress at Düsseldorf (see p. 20) : "Through research and education the scourge of cancer will yet be controlled." Then they traveled to Manhattan for a farewell dinner of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, where Banker Thomas W. Lament presided...