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In Washington he sat down with Symington and held a joint press conference. Alcoa, they announced, had decided to give the use of its patents covering extraction of alumina from bauxite to the Federal Government. It can license operators of Government-owned plants to compete with Alcoa. In an atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIGHT METALS: Kiss & Make Up | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

The brashest, bounciest lexicographer who ever lived is a Baltimorean of German extraction named Henry Louis Mencken. His first, famed dictionary (The American Language, 1919) was dedicated to the proposition that English has now become only a dialect of American.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alphabet Soup | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Through its unofficial link with G.M., and with expected cooperation from other industries, the Institute will have quick access to all industrial discoveries having a bearing on cancer. G.M., for example, has developed an excellent infrared spectroscope, a device cancer workers use in identifying chemicals. For the future it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: $4 Million for Cancer | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

In Paris last week a trembling, white-haired old man stood before the bar of justice. Georges Claude, 74, world-famed inventor, has sometimes been called the ''Edison of France." He invented neon lights, was a pioneer in the liquefaction of rare gases, the extraction of atmospheric nitrogen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Paranoia? | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

No Negro, Henry Clay Warmoth was born of American pioneer stock of Dutch extraction. In fact there has never been a Negro Governor in the U.S. Closest was Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, who served as Acting Governor of Louisiana from Dec. 9, 1872 until Jan. 13, 1873, while Governor Warmoth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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