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In 1942 the Japanese overran Malaya and the then Dutch East Indies to cut off the main sources of natural rubber for the United States and the British Commonwealth. Because of this the US Government initiated a crash programme for the installation of plants for the manufacture of a rubber from butadiene and styrene. This product, then known as GR-S (Government Rubber-Styrene), provided at that time an inferior substitute for natural rubber but, with a renewed availability of natural rubber at the end of the war, the demand for GR-S slumped considerably. (Today the demand for SBR (as GR-S is now known) has increased with the great improvements in quality that have been made and SBR is today the principal synthetic rubber). 

BCSO(NA) British Commonwealth Scientific Office(North America)... 

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It should be noted that all the SOE s activities were conducted under the protective umbrella of Her Majesty s Official Secrets Act. Any British Commonwealth citizen releasing information about the SOE without the advance permission of the monarchy is liable to prosecution on charges of high treason, punishable by execution. No wonder that the reliable sources of information on the SOE are French, Italian, and West German intelligence agencies. 

Professor Jones s participation in professional societies and affairs outside the University were as follows Rapporteur for the Royal Society of Canada (Chemical Section) in 1971, and Convenor in 1972 Member of the Advisory Committee to the Atlantic Regional Laboratories of the National Research Council, Halifax, Nova Scotia Member of the Board of Governors of the Ontario Research Foundation Member of the Board of Advisors for the British Commonwealth for Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Carbohydrate Research Chairman of the Fourth International Conference on Carbohydrate Chemistry, which was held in Kingston in 1967 and a Corresponding Member of the Nomenclature Committee of the Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry, American Chemical Society. Professor Jones was a member of The Chemical Society, the Biochemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry (Associate), the Chemical Institute of Canada, the American Chemical Society, and the New York Academy of Sciences. 

For many years, atmospheric pressure was measured in millimetres of mercury (mm Hg). In the British Commonwealth and the United States, inches of mercury were used. Standard atmospheric pressure, the pressure of the atmosphere at sea level and 0°C, is 760 mm Hg. More recently, in honour of the work of Torricelli, standard atmospheric pressure has been defined as 760 torr. 1 torr represents a column of mercury 1 mm in height at 0°C. Another common unit for measuring pressure is atmospheres (atm), where 1 atm is equivalent to 760 torr. While mm Hg, torr, and atm are still used to measure pressure, especially in technological and medical applications, the SI units are pascals (Pa) or kilopascals (kPa). 

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All but a dozen or so of the publications mentioned have been seen by the. author. Among the libraries which have been used are those of the British Museum and Patent Office in London, of the Universities of Cambridge London, and Manchester, the Cambridge Philosophical Society, some Departs mental Libraries in Cambridge, the Chemical and Geological Societies in London, and in the case of Russian publications the Society for Cultural Relations between the Peoples of the British Commonwealth and the U.S.S.R., in London. The staffs of all the libraries have, without exception, rendered the most willing, courteous, and expert assistance to the author, and he cannot adequately thank them for this. 

Before 1980, in some countries, mainly those that were formerly part of the British Commonwealth, patent extensions were obtainable on petition at the end of the patent life. For a petition to be granted, the patent owner was required to show inability during the normal life of the patent to receive sufficient remuneration from the use of the patented invention. Under this system, patent extensions of 4 to 10 years could be obtained based on the evidence presented. 

New Zealand is a sovereign independent state and member of the British Commonwealth, with a parliamentary government and a constitutional monarchy. The Governor-General represents Queen Elizabeth II in New Zealand. New Zealand... 

The editors note with profound regret the passing on October 29, 1975, of our friend and erstwhile mentor Sir Edmund Hirst, a member of the Executive Committee of Advances from 1948 to 1950 and of our Board of Advisors from 1950 to 1952, an Associate Editor for the British Isles from 1953 to 1954, a member of the Board of Advisors for the British Isles from 1955 to 1968, a member of the Board of Advisors for the British Commonwealth from 1969 to 1974 (Vol. 29), and a member of the Board of Advisors from 1974 (Vol. 30) until his death. 

We address the uncertainty of predicting the future by grounding our efforts in a theory of the development of late-modern societies and the related long-term deployment of the infrastructures such societies build to support themselves. We will present historical data on the sociotechnological infrastructures that the modernizing United States built during the twentieth century. Such histories could also be constructed for much of the former British Commonwealth, Europe, Japan, and more recently much of the rest of Asia. We would argue that modem societies are unlikely to deviate from these historical trajectories except in the case of catastrophic events. 

Abstracting Services Consultative Committee, Royal Society, A List of Periodicals and Bulletins Containing Abstracts Published in Great Britain with Appendix giving Partial List of Journals Containing Abstracts Published in the British Commonwealth, 2nd ed., London, Cambridge University Press, 1950. 

As a further example, the British Commonwealth Bureau of Dairy Science has listed (6) the periodical literature regularly searched in preparing Dairy Science Abstracts. This list is exclusive of bulletins, circulars, and reports issued irregularly by government departments, universities, research institutes, and experiment stations. Their latest list of periodicals contains some 453 titles of which only around 73 (or about 16%) are dairy journals. The geographical scope is world wide, including periodicals from such unlikely spots as the Isle of Man, Cyprus, and the Fiji Islands. Actually Dairy Science Abstracts obtains only about 35% of its abstracts from dairying journals. 

The Union Castle liner Dunbar Castle, sunk in the Dover Strait on 9 Jcinuary 1940. (British Commonwealth Shipping Company)... 

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The end of the DuPont Fellowship at Columbus coincided with Canada s entry into World War II, in company with the other members of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Sowden s patriotism, and his desire to be in Canada during the war, took him to the Banting Institute of the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, where he became acquainted with Professor H. 0. L. Fischer, who had recently come from the University of Basle in Switzerland to the University of Toronto at the invitation of Sir Frederick Banting. Sowden joined this group as an Assistant in the Fall of 1939, and, for the next eight years, was involved in the many and varied research activities of Hermann Fischer. 

Modem adherents of Radical British Israelism now draw on Herbert W. Armstrong s popular but controversial book The United States and British Commonwealth in Prophecy where he promotes the hypothesis that ... 

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