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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Professor Davis emphasized his contention that explosives were basically benevolent by setting a great many of them off on the back of his hand before his expectant audience. The lecture which was punctuated by frequent, malodorous puffs of vari-colored smoke, was concerned with a short sketch of the various...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Explosive Tech Professor Electrifies Chemical Club With Blasting Speech | 4/17/1940 | See Source »

In spite of the apparent war in Europe, 95 per cent of the explosive agents now in use are being utilized for peaceful purposes, mining, excavation, and engineering. Professor Davis claimed that the discovery of gun-powder had a greater effect on the development of civilization of the present and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Explosive Tech Professor Electrifies Chemical Club With Blasting Speech | 4/17/1940 | See Source »

Since psychologists must always have a conclusion: "[It] would seem to indicate that our school system lays too much emphasis upon 'failing a test,' 'having a poor report card,' 'being late to school' and 'being left back in school.' We cannot easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worries of Childhood | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Quick to jump at the opportunity was RCA, which has sunk more than $10,000,000 in television development, thinks it has the foundation for a great new industry with millions of sets in U. S. homes, with millions of dollars in created income for entertainers, salesmen, writers, technicians, factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Too Early for Television? | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Last week Buna took out its final U. S. naturalization papers. Its sponsor was its godfather, gargantuan Standard Oil Co. (N. J.), which has research relationships with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie, had a laboratory seat in the development of Buna from German coal gases and limestone. Its first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: First Buna Plant | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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