A p r i l ' s HEA Events of Interest to Chemists, Chemical Engineers, and
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7 APRIL 1. 1-S Atomic Energy Commission divides rvork between principal committees after 4-hour w a n g l e in which Russia and Poland refused t o vote on hon- work is t o be done. -S:itural rubber market celebrates first dn!- of postwar freedom as P.F. gives lip import monopoly, hut trading in futures nil1 not begin until 11~)-1.---G. C. Skinner, president Cerased, and H. \ICollins, , vice president Celotez Corp., announce that Celotes \vi11 handle all Ceraseal sales in future escept in U. S.1-nReconstruction Finance Corp. offers 155,000 long tons natural rubber for sale to rubber products manufacturing industry.
essing ~0,000,000yd. of f x b r i c ~ . - T r u n k h e Cia. Pupply CO. beeks permission of Federal Poxer Commission to construct first pipeline in L-. S.a t cost of $74,000,000 to furni..h natural gas e ~ elusively ivholesale to other transmission companies:.
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9 APRIL 9. David E. Lilientbal confirmed 50 t o 31 ab chnirni:tn of USAEC until Aug. 1, 1948, along with other five appointeess. --Security Council votes 8 t o 0, Russia and Polanb abitaining, t o send Corfu mine controversy t o International Court of Judire, and Conventional Armaments Commission approves Colombian resolution for big five subcommittee to draft p l m of n-ork f o r approval hy Council.--Brig. Gen. F. E. Stonc>r :tl)pciintcti chief conimunicntions engineer for US.---Department of Commerce Ofice of Technical Services reports that Ckrniaii prepwation for :iithnia relief. nludriiie sulfate, may sho\v advniitsges over adrenalin aiid other standard treatments. -Reniiiigton Rand seek. t o acquire assets of General Aniliiie & Film C o r p . ~ J. D . Goodloe elected succesI.or of C. B. Hendewon RP KFC chairman. -Standard Oil (S.J.) s accident ally" hits oil in Sinai Desert after 10-year search. -Virginia-Carolinn Chemical Corp. increase, p h n t faciiitieh ior nianuiacture of phoqhoric acid, inorg:iiiic plioapliateto phy*ics and chemistry6. --GE'- ~25,000.000 Electronics Pnrli, miiasive ni:iiiufncturing center, nil1 hegin production w o n on 155-acre tract in S.T.
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APRIL8. RFC purcliaqes 1000 tons Straits tin in London for prompt shipment.- -Disposition of xvar surplus property priorities to end Iiottlenecli in getting rid of surpluses as Government is losing huge sums by present priorities methods urged by Representative Rizley. ---Xonsanto Chemical Co. announces nenplant in Springfield, Mass., for manufacture of company's testiletreating chemical, Resloom, x i t h yearly output capable of proc-
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. ~ P R I L 12. RFC awards 1,250,000 gal. Cut)an ethyl alcoliol t o Conimcrcial Solvents. -.lnnc.rican Potahh s n t l Clieiiiicd ('orp. announces erection of $3,800,000 plant will iricrca5c its output of soda ash 70cC and boras 3Oc; annually.
a- -4PRIL 13. 3000 tons muriate potash arrive? from France.-Southern S a t u r a l Gas Co. submits plan for 225-mile pipeline costing S25,711,955t o FPC. -Winthrop Chemical Co. develops
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new salt substitute, Seocurtasal, ior persons requiring salt-free diet.--House Committee on Agriculture votes to empolver Secretary of Agriculture t o impose “fee” graduated up to 50% on imported wool and wool products in effort t o protect -1merican wool producers from foreign competition.--City of S e n . York turns over scattered land tracts along East River in $2,000,000 gift presentation t o U S Secretary General Trygve Lie, as future world capital is consecrated as “temple of peace, center of hopes, aspirations and ideals of all mankind.”--John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grants 122 fellowship awards valued a t $310,000. Recipients in field of chemistry and physics are: Milton Orchin, T. L. Jacobs, Veriier Schomaker, D. P. Schoemaker, J. C. Warf, F. A. Jenkins, and 11. L. Platzman.
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APRIL 14. Over 7000 attend 111th national m6etinp of B.C.S. in .4tlantic City, ivhere 5-46 papers ivill be presented during week’. -NiSation’s leading platinum refiner advances price $5 per ounce.--CPX announces supplies of st,reptomycin still scarce, revokes present regulation and replaces it with neiv allocation order. -F. K. Jovin, U. S. Embassy in Buenos Xires, reports -4rgentine plastics market expansion brings skyrocketing requirements for plastics rail- materials from U. S.
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7 APRIL 15. Charles A. Thomas, Pre>ident-elect, A.C.S., and vice president Monsanto, discusses peacetime applications of atomic energy a t A.C.S. meeting5. -Surgeon Gen. Thomas Parran urges Senate approval of 91,000,000 fund for tuberculosis experiments with streptomycin. --dweclish ?;ohel Committee rules that Gcrhard Domagk, 1939 German Sobel Prize n.iiiner for discovery of antibacterial action of prontoiiline sulfonaniider, whom Xazis prevented from accepting nivard, will lose ii35,OOO prize money.
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7 APRIL 16. W.Albert SOJYS, JI.. P r e d e i i t A.C.S., :~Il1loLlrices Priestjey Medal n-ill go to Warren K , Lf,n-is; Women’s .In.artl in Chemistry (Garvan Medalj to Xary Lura Shcrrill; h.C.S. hn-ard in Pure Chemistry (sponsored by Alpha (‘hi Sigma) to Glciiin T. Seaborg; 1947 Eli Lilly and Co. -4n-ard in Biological Chemistry t o Sidney P. Colonick; Paul-Lewis Laboratories .1\vard in Enzyme Ctiemistry t o Van H. Potter; and Borden Prize in Chemistry of Milk to George C. Supplee. --French nitrate-laden freighter explosion in Texas City harbor destroys Nonsanto’s multi-million-dollar styrene plant hasic chemical raiv material in plastics and synthetic rubber industries: refineries of Stone Oil Co. and American Libcrty Co. dam:iged: plants of Carbide & Carbon Chemicals, Pan-AimericnriRefining and Repuldic Oil, and RFC tin smelter left undamaged. Total loss estimated at S125)000,00O.--RFC awards 1,250,000 gsl. Cuban ethyl alcoli~olt o U. S. Industrial Chemicals. ~
7 APRIL17. Frederick Osbori:. deputy U. S. representat’ivc to UNAEC, warns against atomic rivalry among nations and declares international monopoly of atomic power to be best control solution.--Office of Rubber ReGerye foresees no threat t o synthetic rubber industcy resulting from Texas City blast: seriou3 thermoplastic molding materials shortage expected. ---.hericaIi Iron and Steel Instit,ute reports 1170 steelmaking furnaces in operation in U. S.as of Jan, l.--ImmediareIy effective asphalt price J.).--U. 8.primar cut of 5y0announced by Standard Oil (S. tin use for 1946 only 6 6 5 of 1937 consumption of 72,928 t o n , International Tin Research Development Council reports.American Anode division of B. F. C;nodrich Co. plans opening of Los Angeles plant to produce latex compound^ and latex products including rubber products, o n -1priI 23. -Regis College, Denver, reports th’eir seismograph recorded Texas City blast. Paul A. Bunn, Streptomycin Committee. Veterans’ Administration, rc-arns although drug ha- give11 “remarkable relief” in tuberculosis cases, i t can never he complete treatment, and misuse by inexperienced practitiuner- C:,I-I prove fatal.--I. G. Farbenindustries now under board control. k’rpak-iip of other indui-
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trial cartels progressing effectively, James S. Xartin, chief decartelization branch American Military Government in Germany, states.
7 APRIL 18. AIonsmto to spectd rebuilding of $1!~,000,000 Texas City plant, \I-.31. Rand, president, reports.--Sen. )-ark State S a t u r d Gas Corp. seeks F P C permission to construct :]rid operate $1,216,785 compressor atntion to utilize natural gas .upply of Big and Little Inch lines,--TT.1.1 approves bids of Carbide & Carbon Co. fur purchase of styrene and butadiene plunts i t operated during war at Inititute, JT-. Va., fur $2,100,000 and S5,750,000, respectively. 5 APRIL 19. David E. Lilienthal and Vannevar Bush :i.ssert,
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falling behind in atomic development race.--hlleged black market shipment to Manila by Pan-Pacific Trading Co. of 800 vials of streptomycin labeled “penicillin” and valued a t $5200 seized under Federal court warrants in San Francisco.
4 APRIL 20. S a v y reveals use of 5000-acre site at Point AIugo, Calif., for rocket tests.--Celanese Corp. announces $20,000,000 chemical plant in Corpus Christi, Tex., which adds to U. S. formaldehyde supply, arid uses natural gas as raw material. 7 APRIL 21. GE plans construct,ion of neiv t,ype at,om-smasher, synchrtrcyclotron. which accelerates protons instcwI of c?lcct,rons, and is t h r w times as poiverful as its present (‘rorld’s most poiverful” M a t r o n machine. r APRIL 22. Congress sends to White House bill suspending copper import tax, except, on copper sulfat,e, for t x o yews; Government stands to lose $80,000,000 as result,, hut acutc copper shortage nil1 tie :tlleviat,edQ.-~hrgentiria cornplcte contract.^ for S100,000,000 industrial project under country’s %year dmdopment p l m ; half of equipment arid materials to he purchased in U. S.---II. AI. Bliss elected S h h I dircrtor.
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. ~ P R I L 23. J. J. Grche, dirc,ctor physical rcscwch 1:iboratory, Ilon. Chemical Co., receives John Keslcy €Iyatt .\n.:mi for outstanding work on production of styrene and its polymi~rization in plastics industry during 1946. --Pennsylvania Sdt Manufacturing Co. cuts prices of chloride of lime anti anhythous fcwic chloride $5 per ton. r ~ P R I L24. Tl-ar ts Akhiinistrator11. S . Iitt.ltjohti ;isks Congress to end by Dee. 31 surplus property priorities escept real estate.---Oil operators in Seeligson field ask Texas Supreme Court to en,join Texas Railroad Commission from closing 195 wells for alleged ‘,excessivex i - t e ” of natural gas. ---Prices o n refined glycerol reduced 5 cents per lb.
;\PRII. 27. A t r~~cluc;tof 11>ij, Gcn. .I, 11. \\-uitt, 1tog:cr Idanis, chairman Imnrd of directors, X.C.S., names 17 leading -4merican chemists and chemical engineers to Chemical Corps advisory committee. -Carbide & Carbon Chemicals a ~ i ~ ~ o u n c c ~ plant for t~~iethylhc~uyl pho.sphat.c. production nears completion.
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r APRIL28. Secretary of State Marshall, back from AIo~cow, reveals Stalin hope for U S compromise, says U. S. will liot be diverted from plans, and of European time factor says “patient is sinking while doctors deliberate”.--Siam admitted to LS.NC. F. Cori awarded Sugar Research Prize of $5000 for nchievements in field of human metabolism by Sational Science Fund of Sntional Academy of Sciences.
7 .IPRII.29. FPC plans to modify S a t u r a l Gas Act in face of criticism of industry and Congress, and n-ill incorporate changes in report July 1. . ~ P R I L 30. Canada cannot risk foreign position by shifting copper trade to U. S.in view of temporary import tax suspension; complete end of duty wked by R. C. Stanley, president International Sickel Co. of Canada.--Hercules Powder Co. opens Burlington, X , J., plant for manufacture of chemicals for paint, Incquer, adhesives, and other industrie?. 9
Ibid., 1237 (May 5, 1047).
