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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vast Unknown. In Champaign, Ill., Gordon L. Griffith ran this ad: "Abomb research physicist . . . needs house. You got the bomb-do we get a house...
Faure as a composer has been almost unknown in this country, and therefore, irrespective of the competitive merits of the works chosen and disregarding serious defects in performance, the Music Department earns appreciation for time and money spent. It was worth doing...
What this meant, said Mr. Gauss, was that Sino-American business relations were on a new-and as yet largely unknown- basis. Until the new basis is clear, he warned: the U.S. should go slow in making loans lest it foster "projects which cut across lines of our own interests." Nevertheless, he concluded: the manner in which those new relations are worked out will determine how many U.S. companies will want to invest money in China. "[While] mistakes may be made . . . the climate for American participation in the development of China will be ... healthful and encouraging...
...Chemistry prize for 1945 went to Professor Ilmari Artturi Virtanen, 50, of Finland, who is almost unknown outside Scandinavia. His specialty: agricultural biochemistry. Scandinavian dairymen are grateful to him for a method of preserving green cattle fodder with minimum loss of food value...
These were the favorites; but the next Dictator of Russia might be as unknown at present as the next Dalai Lama of Lhasa...