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...with sulphur. Stopping the polymerization at an intermediate point gave them ? Rubber. In short, they had produced synthetic rubber from acet ylene (product of coal and limestone), salt and water. While the rubber chem ists cheered, the three young du Ponters ? W. H. Carothers, F. B. Downing, Ira Williams ? generously gave most of the credit to a 53-year-old Catholic priest, Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, C.S.C., of Notre Dame University. Father Nieuwland, born a Belgian, at tended Notre Dame and later settled down in South Bend to a life of avowed poverty and chemical research...
When you write, address and mail a letter to President Herbert Hoover, The White House, Washington, D. C. it goes, not to him, but to Ira Smith. Mr. Smith has a mustache. He sits at a big desk in the outer Executive offices. His title is White House mail clerk. All day long he opens letters from sacks and sacks of mail, scans them through gold-rimmed glasses. If your letter looks very important, he routes it to Private Secretary Theodore Joslin who may put it before the President. If it looks political, it goes to Political Secretary Walter Newton...
Last week this White House mail system came under critical fire. Governor Roosevelt had written President Hoover about the St. Lawrence River development and New York's water power plans. Presumably the letter went to Ira Smith and thereafter was reported "lost." None of the secretaries had seen it. When it did finally turn up-with an answer-at the State Department, much explaining was necessary (see p.12...
...Retail business was at a standstill. A few smaller firms did not open. Police were recalled from vacations and the 148th Infantry held ready. The Inverness Golf Club, scene or the recent National Open tournament, was closed by its board of directors, all help was dismissed except two greenskeepers. Ira Fulton, superintendent of Ohio Banks, called together more than 100 frightened country bankers who were hit by the trouble, tried to calm them. From neighboring States, 100 bank examiners set out to help straighten Toledo's muddle. Brokers widely discussed the possible effect on control of Toledo...
...Hardtner, just across the Kansas line, lived two farmers, Jacob Achenbach and Ira B. Blackstock. When Hardtner had been left railroadless by the Missouri Pacific these two men had built a railroad to Kiowa. ten miles away. Their fame as railroad builders had spread. The farmers of Beaver called upon them for help. Soon the Beaver, Meade $ Englewood Railroad Co. had a train running. But profits were hard to get, and in 1918 Carl J. Turpin of Oklahoma City, an ex-railroader, was called in as general manager. He soon had things shipshape along the seven-mile right...