Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London Olda was a sensation. Sir Henry Wood made her his orchestra's soloist for the Albert Hall season in early 1939. Olda's parents went to London and rewarded her with a Continental holiday. In Poland they were trapped by the war and the Nazis. The Gestapo took Father Mehr to one concentration camp, mother and daughter to another...
...process was born in 1935 when Basil Albert Adams and Eric Leighton Holmes of the British Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (which has no counterpart in the U.S.) prepared L, phenol-formaldehyde resin which was more useful for its chemical properties than as a plastic. When immersed in "hard" water, which contains salts of calcium, it entered an exchange: it took calcium atoms from the water, replaced them with sodium, thus softened the water...
...Died. Albert Kahn, 73, world's No. 1 industrial architect, "father of modern factory design"; in Detroit. Son of an impoverished rabbi, he immigrated from Germany with his family when he was 12, worked for Detroit Architect George D. Mason for 14 years, opened his own office when he was 26. He and the automotive industry's mass production grew together and Kahn's factory designs-"all-under-one-roof," later "all-on-one-floor"-became part & parcel of developing U.S. production; industry's demands for his services made Kahn a mass-producer himself. Ultimately...
...Donna Mae is lucky-she is the first U.S. plague case to be treated with sulfadiazine and she will probably recover. Her doctor, Albert Newton of Yreka, tried it on the advice of Dr. Karl Meyer who has cured plague-infected animals with it in his University of California laboratory. (The drug has also been used on human plague in South America...
...Juniors appointed as ushers are: A. LeRoy Atherton, Thomas N. Bridge, George M. Burditt, Jr., C. Thompson Cowen, John E. Corrigan, Jr., E. Thayer Drake, 3rd, John D. Eusden, Albert P. Everts, Jr., Dan H. Fenn, Stephen W. Gifford, 3rd, Donald Harting, Brooks N. Heath, Robert B. Houston, Jr., Hugh M. Hyde, Wayne Johnson, Jr., John P. Kennedy...