April 20, 1930
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Among Chemists Harry W. Block, formerly with Reed & Cornrick, Jersey City, N . J., is now research chemist with t3he General Foods Corp., Gloucester, Mass. John Closs (Ph.D. Wisconsin, 1928> is studying under Max Bodenstein a t the Physical Chemistry Institute. Doctor Closs is working o n fluorine. A. B . Cummins, formerly research engineer w i t h the Celite Corp., Lompoc, Calif., h a s been transferred to t h e position of manager of Celite research, Johns-Mianville Corp., Manville, N.J. Andrew M . Fairlie, consulting chemical engineer of Atlanta, Ga.,· sailed April 11 on t h e Homeric for a two months' trip to England and continental Knrope. HI is address until June 7 will be care American Express Co., London, England. F. R . Hodgson has been transferred i r o m Chicago to the N e w York branch of t h e Bagle-Ptcher Lead Co., 420 Lexington Ave., a n d is still connected with t h e Dry Products Division. Jess. M. Holderby, formerly assistant sanitary chemist of the Sanitary District of Chicago, is now assistant sanitary engineer, Bureau of Sanitary Engineering, Wisconsin Board of Health, Madison, Wis. Andrew A. Holmes, sales manager o:f the American Potash & Chemical Co., has resigned, and May 15 becomes associated with Farm Supplies, a trade paper for retail merchants which was started last autumn by the KLaynes groaip of industrial and trade publications. Mr. Holmes fcias been associated w i t h the Americ a n potash interests since 1922, and 3has played an important part in the introduction of thte potash a j i d borax of this company into American markets. * Previous to this, he w a s in chemical engineering works, having received a technical training at the University of North Carolina and at Cornell. In h i s new connection, Mr. Holmes will be vice president of the Farm Supplies Publishing Co., and will h a v e charge o f the sale of agricultural chemical fertilizers, insecticides, disinfectants, etc., advertising i n this magazine. Otto Johnson, who received his training in biochemistry at the University of Minnesota, a n d who lias had several years' experience, began work on February 15 in t l i e Division of Chemistry of the Agricultural Experiment Station, State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash. Jos. H . Jorling, formerly with Aultfe Wiborg, Inc., has taken a position with the Kay & K s s Co., Dayton, Ohio, a s lacquer technologist, in charge of production and laboratories of the lacquer department. James F. Loughlin recently resigned a_s works manager, Eastern Alcohol Corp., Kentucky Alcohol Corp., and Solid Carbonic Co., a n d is now with the A. O. Smith Corp., Milwaukee, Wis. M. H . Merriss has become a member of the technical staff of t h e D u Pont Ammonia Corp., Wilmington, Del-, in charge of sales development work. Henry H. Nelson has b e e n appointed manager of the Buffalo paint and varnish plant o f the Certain-teed Products Corp. Mr. Nelson was formerly factory sup errintendent of the Ault & Wiborg Varnish- Works in Toronto. A. _N. Parrett, for the past five y e a r s connected with the Chemical Department of E - I. d u Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., h a s accepted a position w i t h the A.O. Smith Corp., Milwaukee, Wis. L. Irving Pollitt has accepted a place on the Advisory Committee to t h e Department o f Gas Engineering of t h e Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Pollitt conceived the idea of establishing g a s engineering i n the universities of America, and his great personal interest and efforts led the Southern G a s Association t o undertake the founding of this \vor\k at Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Pollitt has always been, a member of t h e committee on t h e chair of g a s enginceri-ng for the Southern Gas Association and has loyally supportedl the - development of the work. William B . Plummer has joined the research staff of t h e Standa r d Oil Co. (Indiana), Whiting, IiicL, where h e will be concerned with problems relative to gas utilization. Mr. Plummer w a s formerly a research g r o u p leader w i t h the Combustion Utilit i e s Corp., Ëinden, N. J. Leon V. Quigley, technical editor, B a k é l i t e Corp., addressed t h e February meeting of tiae North Shore Men's Club, Long Island, on "Chemistry in t h e Nation's Business." On March 7, i n the Fireside Series of Sunday nigbtt meetings of t h e Town
Hall Club, Mr. Quigley spoke on "Chemistry in the Complex Present—The Relation of Science to Everyday Interest." L. V. Redman, vice president and director of research, Bakélite Corp., addressed the Detroit regional meeting of the American Society for Testing Materials on "Phenol Resinoids and the Automobile." His address was a part of the Symposium on "Developments in Automotive Materials." H. Rossbacher has been made superintendent of manufacturing development a t the Kearny, N. J., plant of the Western Electric Co. Clarence W. Sondern, formerly with t h e U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D . C , recently joined the research staff of E. R. Squibb & Sons, Brooklyn, Ν . Υ., where he will be engaged in the synthesis of new antiseptics. William H. Staebner is now at the head of the Information Department of t h e Chas. Pfizer Co., Inc. For more than three years Mr. Staebner was with Arthur D . Little, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., as library chemist, petroleum librarian, and general librarian. Friends of Otto E. Toenhart (Ph.D. Wisconsin, 1929) will be sorry t o learn t h a t he has recently undergone a serious operation in Germany. H e is getting along nicely, and may be reached at Kraukenhaus Schwarbing, Munich. R. V. Townend recently resigned h i s position as chemical director of the Pilot Laboratories, Inc., a subsidiary of General Milk, Inc., in order t o join the staff of the Calco Chemical Co., Bound Brook, N . J. Sidney D . Wells is now in charge of research and technical con trol of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Co., Port Edwards, Wis. G. H . Wright has been transferred from the East St. Louis works of the National Carbon Co., Inc., to the Clarksburg, W. Va., works. Mr. Wright was head of the works laboratory at East St. Louis, and the transfer involves a change in work from a dry cell manufacturing plant to an electrode manufacturing plant.
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TOTAL 66 4 3 7 11 19 61 23 248 93 32 12 6 9 9 3 33 35 22 16 9 27 4 105 147 1 36 12 95 91 9 18 26 9 4 38 1 8 23
17 1 1 0 1 2 1 Ο S4 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 2 2 0 4 6 0 6 2 4 2 0 0 3 1 0 3 0 0 0
3 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 2 3 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 0
7 0 0 1 0 0 9 6 43 15 5 1 1 0 1 1 9 5 1 3 1· 1 1 17 5 0 5 0 6 10 0 5 3 1 1 3 0 1 3
1 2 1 1 1
0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0
2 2 1 2 1
1032
150
29
172
1383 . 51 ,1434
39 3 2 5 10 17 50 16 120 75 24 11 5 9 6 2 21 28 21 11 6 24 3 S2 135 1 24 10 83 76 9 11 20 7 3 29 1 7 20
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