Word: woodwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silk that doesn't come from worms, wool that doesn't come from sheep, and man-made skin and hair that doesn't grow on humans can now be produced by a process announced by Robert B. Woodward, associate professor of chemistry, this week in the current issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society...
...Woodward, who made the headlines back in 1944 as co-discoverer of artificial synthesis of quinine, is now the first to synthesize a substance with the same molecular structure as fibrous proteins. This is the basic stuff of all forms of animal life...
Assisted by Charles H. Schramm, Woodward succeeded in forming long protein like molecules which are comparable to those of hair, muscle, nerves, and skin. He has cautiously termed these chaina protein "analogs," until he can examine the molecules more thoroughly at more points in the linkage...
...familiar: the dead air, the unnatural darkness, the faint smell of dust. People in Woodward and the other towns of the pan-flat Oklahoma-Texas wheat belt (which lost over 150 citizens in the disastrous twister of April 9) shivered when they saw the new storm coming last week. They assumed that they were still on the main line and dived for storm cellars. They were understandably hasty-the twister struck 40 miles south in tiny Leedey, tore it apart and killed...
John E. Rexine, of 11 Woodward Park St., Dorchester...