June 20, 1931
INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
eign publications. ]No official communication has emanated from the b o a r d of i n q u i r y formed b y the government. W e can assure our read«ersof -this fact. However, j u s t as we were finishing this letter w e learned that two factories (Chemical a n d metallurgical plants) in t h e region which suzfifered from, the fogs have Just been closed by a n official decision «Df May 18. We have not y e t been able to learn whether these clo*sures based on public health measures—were authorized as a»- result of "the events of l a s t December. May 2:0,193 JL
History of the Vermont Section The history o f t h e Vermont S e c t i o n of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL
SOCIETY i s the history of its smallest section. Small in numbers, it serves as a c l e a r i n g house for t h e chemical ideas of the three Vermont colleges — Vermont, Middlebury, and Norwich. On M a y 11, 1916, at t h e instigation of C . E. Burke, who had recently come t o the University of Vermont, a group of men interested in chemistry from t h e University of Vermont, Middlebury, and \\p\
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Norwich-, and ^L f e w from other chemical, fields^, m e t at trie N e w Sherwoo. Snell, Inc., 130 Clinton St., Brooklyn, Ν . Υ., as an associated consultant. J . S. Hicks, formerly with the National Aniline a n d Chemical Co., Buffalo, N. Y . , is now o n the research staff of the SherwinWilliams Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland B. Hollabaugh, who has just completed the re quirements for his P h . D . at the Pennsylvania State College, h a s taken a position with the Hercules Powder Co., i n its Experi mental Station at Wilmington, Del. Walter R. Kirner has resigned his position as assistant pro fessor of organic chemistry at The Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, t o become organic chemist on the staff of t h e Coal R e search Laboratory, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pitts burgh, P a . A part of his new duties will include the organization of a laboratory for quantitative microorganic analysis. K e n n e t h Kobe has recently accepted a position as instructor in chemical engineering a t Washington University, Seattle, Wash., t o take effect at the beginning of the next academic year. A . Ernest MacGee, manager of the Solvents Department of the Skelly Oil Co., has moved his headquarters from Kansas City to Chicago, in order to secure closer contact with industries utilizing special hydrocarbon fractions. A . H . Maude has been transferred from t h e Rubber Service Laboratories, Nitro, W. Va., to the East St. Louis plant of t h e Monsanto Chemical Works, where he will continue his work in chemical engineering and research. R. F. Mehl, superintendent of the Division of Physical Metal lurgy of the Naval Research Laboratory, has been appointed assistant director of research of the American Rolling Mill Co., Middletown, Ohio, and will take up his n e w responsibilities in charge of the physical science department of the Armco labora tories o n September 1. Lewis E. Miller has been appointed head of t h e Chemistry Department of t h e State Agricultural and Mechanical College, Jonesboro, Ark., and will leave Illinois Wesleyan University t o take over his new duties in September. L . A. Pridgeon has been transferred from his position a s chemical engineer at the Diamond Crystal Salt Co., Saint Clair, Mich., t o superintendent of -the Certo Division, General Foods Corp., Fairport, Ν . Υ. Al Steyermark, who received his Ph.D. last June from Wash ington University, St. Louis, Mo., has accepted a position as a n organic research chemist with the Thomas & Hochwalt Labora tories, Inc., Dayton, Ohio. J · E. C. Valentin has been transferred from Chicago to the new Boundbrook, N. J . , plant of the Bakélite Corp., where in addition to resin and varnish production he will be in charge of the cement a n d resin pulverizing departments. E . M . Van Horn has resigned from the Certain-teed Products Corp., where he was chief chemist, and is now associated with the Imperial Paper and Color Corp., Glens Fails, N . Y - , as chemical engineer in charge of routine, plant control, and research work in the paper mill and wall paper divisions.
Columbus Section Elects Officers The n^ewly e j e c t e d officers o f the Columbus Section, a s of June 1, are: CZMirrzan, E d w a r d Mack; Vice Chairman, J. B . Brown; Secretary-Treasurer* Wallace B r o d e ; Councilors, o n e year, W . L. Evans; -twoyears, J . E. Day.
Chemistry Majors a s Phi Beta Kappa Initiates a t W e s t Virginia University—Nine men were recently initiated into P h i Beta Kappa a t West Virginia University, and of these six are chemistry majors.
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GLYCERIN
SECURITIES
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THE ROESSLER & HASSLACHER CHEMICAL COMPANY
DU PONT RAYON COMPANY
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Stock Owned 100%
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COMPANY Stock Owned 100%
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PENNA. Stock Owned 100%
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THE CE LASTIC CORPORATION Stock Owned 50% Β
OLDH; CKORY CHENrtlCAL COMPANY owned 35% by Du Pont Rayon Co. 15%byGrasselHChem.Co Β
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KREBS PIGMENT & CHEMICAL COMPANY Stock Owned 100%
NATIONAL AMMONIA COMPANY, INC. Stock Owned 100%
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Stock Owned 100%
PLAYHOUSE COMPANY Stock Owned 100% A
Stock Owned 100%
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DU PONT NITRATE COMPANY Stock Owned 100%
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GENERAL MOTORS INVESTMENT Represents 9,981,220. Shares of Common Stock of General Motors Corp. or 22.94% of amount outstanding Β
EASTERN ALCOHOL CORPORATION Stock Owned ' 50%
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MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES HELD AS INVESTMENTS Β
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Stock Owned ' so%
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Stock Owned 37.5%
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Stock Owned 49%
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ROKEBY REALTY COMPANY
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DUPONT-PATHÊ FILM I MANUFACTURING CORPORATION Stock Owned I 51% Β
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DU PONT· BUILDING CORPORATION
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DUCO. INCORPORATED Stock Owned
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Stock Owned 100%
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BAYER.S EMESAN COMPANY. INC. Stock Owned 50%
Stock Owned 100%
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1 INTERNATIONAL FREIGHTING CORPORATION, INC. Stock Owned
DU PONT AMMONIA
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DU PONT CELLOPHANE COMPANY, Stock Owned 100%
T H E GRASSELLI CHEMICAL
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SOCIETE FRANÇAISE FABR1KOID. S. A. Stock Owned 25% Β
A—Companies included !n Consolidated Balance Sheet. Β—Companies earned on Balance Sheet as Investment. *—Owns and operates only the Du Pont Building at Wilmington, Delaware. ••—Controls only the Du Pont-Biltniore Hotel at Wilmington, Delaware, operated oadcr the direction of the Ddwman-Biltniorc Hotels Corporation.
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SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DUCO. S. A. Stock Owned 35% B
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LEATHERCLOTH PROPRIETARY LTD. (AUSTRALASIA) Stock Owned 49%
ASSOCIATED SECURITIES OF CANADA LTD Stock Owned 100%
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CANADIAN INDUSTRIES LIMITED Stock owned 46.05%
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Since the above chart was prepared, the du Pont Co. has become sole owner of the Eastern Alcohol Corp,, through the purchase, recently completed, of the half interest in that corporation held by the Dunlap Molasses Corp., of New York, subsidiary of United Molasses, Ltd., of England. The Eastern Alcohol Corp. was organized in 1925 with the du Pont Co , a very large consumer of industrial alcohol, as half owner. The company's plant is at Deepwater Point, N . J.
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E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company and Subsidiaries
