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...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 Army trucks often had to be jacked up overnight so that their solid tires would not flatten out permanently under their...
...Chicago next day wheat, at a four-year high of $1.20 a bu., broke 3?, corn 2?. In Washington six Senators from the farm belt announced that a small group was trying "to control prices by indiscriminate and ruthless use of surpluses...
...last week crop experts foresaw a harvested soybean crop of 110,000,000 bushels-plus perhaps as much again that will be plowed under as fertilizer, used as pasturage, cured as hay or stored as silage. Next year the U.S. may well overtake Manchukuo (140,000,000 bu.) as the No. 2 soybean producer on earth, surpassed only by giant China (217,000,000 bu...
...Chicago sped Civil Aeronautics Bu-reaumen to investigate the third fatal crash on U. S. airliners since Aug. 30, after a flawless 17 months in which no airline passenger was killed. The cause of Trip 21's crash was a matter for public hearing, laboratory inspection of her engines, props and other remains. First news reports were that ice brought her down. United denied this report, pointed out that if Trip 21 was taking on ice. Pilot Scott would have reported it as airline rules prescribe, pointed out, too, that many other runs came in around the same time...
...mind behind many of the New Deal's agricultural programs. If any man did, he understood the mystic mathematics of agriculture. Few weeks ago he impressed his associates by forecasting the 1940 corn yield, hitting remarkably close to the later official estimate (2,415,988,000 bu.). This week Claude Wickard got another promotion. Henry Wallace resigned to campaign for the Vice-Presidency; Claude Wickard was nominated to be Mr. Roosevelt's second Secretary of Agriculture. Said Claude Wickard, with expected modesty: "I intend to carry out the policies of Henry A. Wallace...