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Herbert Spencer Polin, a young (32) scientist whose home office is a laboratory on the 71st floor of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, got interested in coffee five years ago when Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. hired him for research on roasting methods. Finding that coffee contains all the chemical components of plastics, he went to work on his own to develop a process for combining them...
...California mining sites, of which no trace remains, can often be relocated by nearby thickets of ailanthus trees. A University of California scientist made the discovery and found the reason: in gold-rush days, Chinese cooks, laundrymen and coolies planted the ailanthus, known to them as "tree of heaven," to remind them of home...
...Italian Armistice Commission plane at Casablanca and flew it to Gibraltar. Two boys flew a German Colonel's plane from a field in Occupied France and landed it on a military airdrome in England. Another stole a transport plane from the Vichy airport and flew to London. A scientist who was reluctant to leave his wife and five children in France found a note in his pocket when he was halfway across the English Channel. It said what she had not told him before, for fear he might not go: that she was pregnant with her sixth child...
Against all this, some German scientists have finally risen. In Der Biologe, Geneticist F. Schwanitz pointed out that the anti-evolutionary outbursts have been quite unsupported by scientific references. He seethed at the "shameless attack upon the supporters of evolutionary theory, i.e., the overwhelming majority of biologists." Another scientist, Chr. von Krogh, writes: "Some have tried to identify a scientific doctrine with the National-Socialist philosophy. Nothing could be more wrong. A detailed scientific theory can never be identified or paralleled with a philosophy...
Carried to death's door by the bite of a Montana tick, a laboratory worker was saved last week by a new serum. With one notable exception, this researcher was the first scientist among several score experimenting on Rocky Mountain spotted fever to recover from an attack. The other: the man who invented the serum-young Dr. Norman Hawkins Topping of the U.S. Public Health Service. His attack of fever three years ago was so '"terrible" that after his miraculous recovery he worked day & night till he produced the new serum...