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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After reading the article on Carl Strandlund and the Lustron home [TIME, July 4], I would say that Preston Tucker hadn't used his head in financing his auto company. Tucker apparently squandered about $28 million belonging to various private individuals and he has the Government and half the newspapers and magazines in the country on his neck. Carl Strandlund "has spent" $32.5 million in a period of about two years, apparently needs $3,000,000 more, is all set to spend another $1,000,000 a month...
Other charitable projects include research in rheumatic fever and dementia praecox, an extensive hospital-visitation program. U.S. Masonry in 1948 spent more than $9,000,000 on various philanthropies (the figures are incomplete since the order does not advertise its charities...
...need fancier equipment than the oldtime pick, shovel and burro. They also need a new kind of knowledge. To help uranium prospectors, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Geological Survey last week issued a handbook, written in simple language, called Prospecting for Uranium (Government Printing Office; 30?). It describes various uranium ores, tells where they are apt to be found and how they can be identified...
...Schweitzer was equally confident about man's ability to weather his current storms. The great problem of modern times, he said, is "to safeguard the integrity of the individual within the modern state." The great modern conflict: "Personality versus collectivity . . . [They are] fighting everywhere. Collectivism in its various forms has deprived the individual of his individuality...
...silk, is a protein. Scientists know that it is made of certain amino acid molecules linked together in chains. What they do not know is how the chains are put together. The plan is to find out how the silkworms do it. Professor Williams is injecting mature worms with various amino acids which are made radioactive by carbon 14. After a while the worms start spinning their cocoons. If their silk turns out radioactive, it may prove that the particular amino acids injected by Professor Williams were used to form its protein...