November 20, 1927
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Among Chemists W . T . Bovie has given u p his appointment as assistant pro fessor of biophysics a t H a r v a r d University in order t o become professor of biophysics a t Northwestern University. D r . Bovie is now a t Northwestern inaugurating his department a n d it is planned t o organize t h e d e p a r t m e n t for research a s well as instruction. R a y m o n d M . H a n n has resigned a s assistant chemist a t t h e B u r e a u of Chemistry a n d as instructor in organic chemistry a t George Washington University, t o accept a fellowship a t Mellon I n s t i t u t e , Pittsburgh, P a . R o b e r t T . H a s l a m , of the D e p a r t m e n t of Chemical Engineer ing, h a s resigned from t h e faculty of t h e Massachusetts Institute of Technology, effective November first. F o r some time past, Professor Haslam has acted as a technical consultant a n d adviser on research and development projects for t h e S t a n d a r d Oil Company (New Jersey) and its affiliated companies, giving t o this work an increasing proportion of his time. H e will continue his connection with the I n s t i t u t e a s non resident professor of Fuel a n d Gas Engineering b u t will devote practically his entire time t o development work relating t o t h e oil i n d u s t r y as a member of t h e executive staff of the Standard Oil Development Company a t 26 Broadway, New York City. N o r m a n C. Hill, formerly with the Atlantic Refining Company, is a t present in t h e Production Division of xhe D u Pont R a y o n Company, Old Hickory, Tenn. A. A. Jackson h a s resigned as vice president of t h e Darco Sales Corporation, with which he has been associated since i t s organization in M a y , 1922. F o r the present his address is 140 | Claremont Ave., New York, Ν . Υ. J o h n J . Luening has resigned t h e position of secretary and treasurer of the Compressed Gas Manufacturers Association a n d is now associated with the K e n t u c k y Oxygen-Hydrogen Co., on the engineering stalf, in connection with operation control^and process development. J . W . Neckers, who received his P h . D . at the University of Illinois last J u n e , is now teaching in the chemistry d e p a r t m e n t a t t h e Southern Illinois State Normal University, Carbondale, 111. Charles M . P a l m e r has left Van Buren, Ark., after eleven years with t h e Arkansas Zinc & Smelting Corporation (later the Falcon Zinc Co.), t o become one of t h e operating staff of t h e new elec trolytic zinc plant t h a t is being built jointly by the Bunker HiU & Sullivan M . & C. Co. a n d t h e Hecla Mining C o . , a t Kellogg, Jdaho. P a u l Robinson, formerly a t Yale University, has accepted a position with E. I . du P o n t de Nemours & Co., a n d is now at t h e Experimental Station, Wilmington, Dei. R . B . W a i t e , formerly instructor in chemistry at I o w a State College, received his P h . D . last July from that college and is now associate professor of analytical chemistry at the Texas A. & M . College, College Station, Texas. L. F . Warrick is now S t a t e Sanitary Engineer of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., C. M . Baker having accepted the position of Chief of Pollution Control for t h e American Pulp and Paper Association.
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Predict Metric Victory in New Congress T h a t t h e United States during the coming session of Congress will t a k e final legislative action to place its merchandising on t h e decimal metric basis in weights and measures was the declaration m a d e a t t h e recent executive conference of t h e All-America S t a n d a r d s Council, held in San Francisco. " M e t r i c legislation is to be prominent before b o t h houses of Congress," stated Aubrey Drury, director of the Council. Hon. Frederick H . Gillett of Massachusetts will present t h e Metric S t a n d a r d s Bill to t h e Senate, a n d Hon. Fred A. Britten will in troduce it in the House of Representatives. ' O b s t r u c t i o n i s t s h a v e always fought bitterly t o kill in com mittee any metric action. T h e great basic strength of this issue in Congress was shown t h e one a n d only time it was allowed to come up for a general v o t e . " Declaring t h a t decimal metric weights and measures for t h e United States h a v e been endorsed by 7 congressional com mittees, b u t with never a general v o t e in Congress, metric ad vocates throughout the country are urging a "show-down" this winter a n d predict a definite victory a t t h e roi!-call. T h e Commercial Solvents Corporation, Terre H a u t e , Ind., has announced t h a t it is in position t o supply synthetic methanol 99 per cent pure in t a n k cars or drums, made b y a process per fected b y the corporation a n d covered by United States p a t e n t s .
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