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...thought of as a long hydrocarbon chain, composed essentially of a cramped-up chain of molecules of methyl butadiene or isoprene. When the rubber is stretched this chain unfolds; when the rubber contracts, it doubles up again. So the problem of synthesizing rubbers is 1) to find basic chain-units similar to methyl butadiene, 2) to build these up into larger, stringy, stretchy molecules. Best way of classifying synthetic rubbers is by their basic materials...
From almost any vegetable material-molasses, potatoes, scrap wood-but best of all from coal, gas or oil can be derived plain butadiene, a gas which is easily liquefied under pressure to form the basic building-blocks of most synthetic rubbers. Butadiene molecules were first polymerized-or built up into larger molecules-with the help of metallic sodium, making a stretchy substance which its German inventors about 1927 called Buna (Bu for butadiene, Na for sodium). It was not a very satisfactory synthetic: but better than the methyl rubber (dimethyl butadiene) of World War I, when it was said German...
Just to proceed on a victory campaign won't do that. The basic causes of this war, as of the last war, lie a good deal deeper than the evil genius of Hitler, or the Kaiser, or the Emperor of Japan. It is pretty well accepted that the last war was rooted in imperialism, in the inability of great industrial states to satisfy their productive capacity in any other way but expansion. Britain and France won the control of world economic opportunity. The natural industrial unit of Germany was blocked from it, and Europe was split up in such...
...part this inadequacy was due to the vertigo natural to the human brain in earthquakes. In part it was due to the fact that it was impossible to give all the answers when some of the basic questions were still to be asked. The chief value that remained to be appraised in the light of the changed world was the human value of man himself. What that value was in 1941 no book of 1941 told. Novelist Koestler came closest to doing it. His Darkness at Noon is laid in a Communist prison. In one scene an imprisoned Communist taps...
With the newly-inaugurated regime advocating the H.L.U.'s basic principles of extension of democracy at home, fighting for democracy abroad, and the establishment of a just peace after the war, the board is expected to approve the merger measure in its meeting Monday. Last Tuesday, at the elections, a two-thirds majority was not achieved and the plan had to be postponed...