Word: weizmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington insiders were aware of another figure: bald, bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann of London and Palestine, noted chemist, noted Zionist. Dr. Weizmann had a date in Washington to confer with Presidential Adviser Judge Samuel I. Rosenman. Reports were that Dr. Weizmann, who did not claim to know all the facts about synthetic rubber, nevertheless knew more of them than any other one man, perhaps could set the record straight...
...World War I, Dr. Weizmann's skill got Britain out of a worse jam than the U.S. rubber shortage. Britain was desperate for acetone, needed to make explosives. It had to be distilled from wood, and there were hardly enough trees in the world to supply the demand. Dr. Weizmann found a way to make synthetic acetone, solved the shortage overnight, in return won the British promise of a homeland for Jews in Palestine...
Even then Dr. Weizmann was experimenting with synthetic rubber: his acetone was a byproduct. Perhaps able, inventive Chaim Weizmann was the man to whom the U.S. could look for a way out of the Rubber Scandal...
...Information), several other members of the British Cabinet; 4) shook hands with some 1,200 leading Britons at a reception in her honor at the Savoy; 5) went to the movies with Anthony Eden* 6) interviewed a score of notables, from Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes to Zionist Chaim Weizmann; 7) spoke at a fireman's dance in a London suburb. She still looked forward to touring munitions factories with Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, interviewing exiled King Peter of Yugoslavia...
...world began to look meagre and the War Office was desperate. Acetone was skimped in making cordite, with the result that, in a naval engagement off South Africa, British shells glumphed dismally into the water a few yards from the guns. Then it was learned that Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the great Zionist, had obtained acetone as a fermentation product in corn mash. After that with huge corn supplies in the U. S. and Canada, British cordite makers got along better...