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...American Airways' Dixie Clipper took off with a full load of 45 passengers (among them was Boston's millionaire scientist, Dr. Godfrey Lowell Cabot, 84, on his 44th Atlantic crossing, his first by air). During the week three of American Export Airlines' Flying Aces, Pan American's Atlantic Clipper and American Clipper zoomed for Europe with all passenger space filled...
...cockroach and bedbug eradicators," whose organization is known impressively as the American Society of Exterminating Engineers. Other engineers now include: sleep-engineer (bedding manufacturer), imagineer (idea-man), custodian-engineer (one who furnishes creative janitorial service), esthetic-engineer (an artist), pediatric-engineer (a corn-cutter), civilization-engineer (a scientist), odor-engineer (perfume manufacturer), and social-engineer (one who "appreciates that one important function of education is the release of the potential energies in human nature...
Hahn had been repeating experiments performed by a onetime colleague, Lise Meitner, a Jewish woman scientist who had fled from Hitler's Reich to Copenhagen. Meitner's own experiments had puzzled her-but when she saw Hahn's report she guessed that the huge uranium atom had been broken into two nearly equal fragments...
...Danish Scientist Niels Bohr, whose research had done much to create the new atomic age, soberly wrote in the London Times: "Against the new destructive powers no defense may be possible, and the issues center on worldwide cooperation to prevent any use of the new source of energy which does not serve mankind as a whole...
...happened in 1939 in the laboratory of a German scientist, Otto Hahn of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin...