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Inconspicuously in the letter column of the New York World-Telegram appeared last week a letter from Red Cross recreation worker Ethel Gross Hopkins.*She had sent carbon copies to many a newspaper. The letter...
...last week the alcohol process was the brightest spot in the picture. Paced by Carbide & Carbon's plants at Institute, W. Va. and Louisville, Ky., butadiene from alcohol is now actually furnishing 75% of all butadiene. Built last year to produce only 220,000 tons, the plants have been geared up to 150% of capacity, and can turn out an unbelievable 330,000 tons a year. Thus, the alcohol process has shouldered in to take over the big job. Even by the end of the year, when all petroleum butadiene plants will presumably be in production, alcohol will still...
...inflation danger is real. Food Boss Marvin Jones, too considerate to call in his publicity staff but too worried to wait, went to his empty office on Sunday, typed out an appeal for quick Congressional action on subsidies so that farmers can make their planting plans, personally distributed the carbon copies to press offices...
...inventor of this "electron microanalyzer" is a fledgling still in his late 20s, James Hillier, co-inventor of the electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28, 1940). The general atomic composition of bacteria and viruses is well known-they are mostly carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen. But under high electronic magnification (100,000 times), bacteria often reveal granules of previously undetected substances that are hard to identify. The granules are much too small to be analyzed by a spectroscope, the conventional instrument for the quick determination of atomic components...
...from the atoms in the target. Since the energy required to dislodge them varies with the kind of atoms present, the loss of energy in the bombarding electrons after they pass through the substance indicates the nature of the atoms on hand. Thus a loss of 298 volts identifies carbon atoms; 400 volts, nitrogen atoms...