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...worthy causes; for his charities he was made a baronet early this year. Though most of his gifts go to British hospitals and universities, Sir Isaac also belongs to a remarkable club of 26 Britons, each of whom has contributed at least $1,000,000 to Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science...
...company got its start just after World War I, when it took over rights to a bacteria-fermentation process for producing a solvent used in artillery explosives; the process had been formulated by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who years later became the first President of Israel. It was found that a by-product of the Weizmann recipe, butyl acetate, could be used in a marvelous, quick-drying lacquer for cars. Until the Weizmann patents expired in 1936. Commercial Solvents' picture was painted rosy...
During that same period. Commercial Solvents also sold industrial alcohols, another Weizmann byproduct; and in 1933, with the repeal of the 18th Amendment, the company for a time supplied some of the makings of Old Mr. Boston and Gordon's gin. During World War II, Commercial Solvents became the first firm to mass-produce penicillin; it also developed a crystalline form of the drug, which could be transported in bulk without refrigeration...
...Near-wafer-thin loudspeaker developed by scientists at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, which will be marketed in the U.S. by the Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. Only three-eighths of an inch thick, it clearly reproduces high-frequency sounds that are scratchy on many present speakers, can be hung on a wall like a picture frame. It will enable Emerson to cut the size of existing hi-fi rigs by two-thirds...
Israeli Prosecutor Gideon Hausner then introduced a series of secret wartime documents that seemed aimed more at the Western Allies than at Eichmann. In a 1944 interview in London, Zionist Elder Dr. Chaim Weizmann begged then Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to start negotiations with the Nazis through neutral channels to get the Jews out of Europe. Eden reportedly answered that the "enemy is playing a devilish game," adding vaguely that "moreover, we have to carry America and Russia along with us." In July 1944, Weizmann urged that, as a desperate move. Auschwitz should be bombed in the hope of knocking...