Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 14 years of diligence and research Dr. Friedrich Bergius of Heidelberg University last week announced another ersatz: sugar from wood. He considers "all difficulties solved" in turning wood into cellulose, treating the cellulose with hydrochloric acid to get ersatz-holz-zucker. The product is similar to beet sugar in taste and application...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news...
Edsel Ford, Board Chairman Roy Dikeman Chapin of Hudson Motor Car Co., and other Grosse Pointe, Mich, socialites (Buhls, Gardners, Geytmrns) have built a $500,000, 608-seat cinema theatre To the opening last week came Radioman Graham McNamee, Actress Elsie Ferguson, Actress Vivian Tobin. Name: "Punch & Judy Theatre," Architect: Robert 0. Derrick, who planned the Ford Museum at Dearborn. Admission on the opening night...
President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba was initiated into the Miami Temple of the Mystic Shrine, at Havana. Last week President Machado received as "token of esteem" from the Dominican Republic a thoroughbred horse...
Friends of seals, friends of penguins were incensed last week at a despatch from Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, commander of Norway's current Antarctic expedition (TIME, Sept. 9). Steaming at tortoise pace on his little ship Norvegia along the rim of Antarctica, Capt. Riiser-Larsen found time and thought hanging heavily. What if his coal should run out? thought he. Forthwith he busied himself with "a little experiment which I think will be of interest to our friends back in civilization...