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...most electrochemists Columbia University's Colin Garfield Fink is the man who found a practical way to make chromium stick to other metals by electroplating. Plump, grizzled Dr. Fink has done other valuable work electroplating with tungsten and rhenium but he worked longest and hardest with chromium. When he found that sulphate ions from ordinary sulphuric acid in his plating bath would do the trick, automobiles, kitchens and modern furniture began to take on a new appearance...
...Received the King's assent in traditional Norman French "Le Roy le veult!" ("The King so wills!") to the bill giving India a new federal form and Constitution, this act being the longest ever passed by Parliament (TIME...
...politics as in fruit, California boasts the juiciest, the most exotic. Having savored Upton Sinclair's EPIC in 1934, she celebrated 1935 by holding the longest, bitterest, most be-lobbied session of her Legislature in history, a free-for-all that ended last week on the front doorstep of Governor Frank Merriam. Today 22 States have chain store taxes. Into the heated session of the California Legislature, Progressives introduced a chain store tax on a California scale- $1 for one store, $2 for the second, $4 for the third and so on in geometric progression...
When President Roosevelt picked his five SECommissioners, he found that the law did not provide for his designating one as chairman. Therefore he showed his personal preference by naming Joseph Patrick ("Joe") Kennedy for the longest term. The Commissioners took the hint, elected Mr. Kennedy chairman. But they must have done so with some misgivings. Chairman Kennedy was no New Dealer. He was not even a businessman. He was a Wall Street financier and a skillful practitioner of much that the New Deal deplored. During the 1920's he had been in the thick of cinematic mergers, deals...
...time allowance was 47 hours. After a short wait to see whether the smallest boat in the race, the German Stoertebeker, would arrive in time to beat Stormy Weather, the race was officially over. In Bergen, crews which had just finished the first transatlantic race since 1931, and the longest (3,050 miles) in history, settled down to wait for their four defeated rivals, only one of which had been sighted since the start...