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The Georgia Section, ACS, has an nounced the program for a meeting-inminiature to be held Nov. 20 a t the Ansley Hotel, Atlanta, Ga. Speakers include: T . W. KETHLBY AND \V. B. Cowx.
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Alden H. Emery
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F. A. Long
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C. B. Purves W. E. Hanford Alden H. Emery
Georgia, Ansley Hotel, Atlanta
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Emil Ott
Iowa, State University of Iowa, Iowa City
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R. H. Burris
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During the sixteenth annual meeting of the Porcelain Enamel Institute, held Oct. 9 at the Hotel Cleveland, t h e following institute officers were elected for the coming year: president, C. ID. Clawson; vice presidents, H. R. Spencer, E. L. Seasholtz, R. J . Ritchey, J. T . Penton, and J. H. E . McMiHan; treasurer, P. B. McRride; and secretary, Edward Mackasek.
The Alabama Polytechnic Institute, in cooperation with the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, announces a three-day Conference on the Use of Radioactive Iso topes in Agricultural Research at Auburn, Ala., Dec. 18, 19, and 20. Speakers will include W. A. Arnold, Fred Allison, Paul C. Aebersold, Paul W. McDaniel, G. W. Morgan, John C. Franklin, S. B . Hend
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Chemistry of Rocket and Jet Propulsion Fuels International Relations for Chemists Chemistry of Rocket and J e t Propulsion Fuels The Reactivity of Cellulose Chemistry of Acetylene The Field of Local Section Activity Review of Rosin Chemistry (Meeting-in-Miniature) Isotopic Tracer?
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Iteeent Advances in Tliiopliciic Chemistry Recent Advances in Thiophciie Chemistry Vinyl Polymerisation
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H. D. Hartough
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H. D. Hartough
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W. E. Haniord
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C. E. Waring
Midland, Dow Chemical Co. Nashville, Western Kentucky State Col logo, Bowliiitf ( i n r n Nebraska, Cnivcrsity of N'cbraska North Jersey (Xcw Brunswick Group), Rutgers l.'niversity Northeast Oklahoma, Civic Center, Hartlesville Northeast Tennessee, King*|M>rt. Inn Northeastern Ohio, I'ainesville
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W. E. Hanford
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Rochester, Chamber of Com merce Bldg.
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Carl F. Cori Gerty T. Cori
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R. H. Burris
Soil Makes Its Mark on Mankind Recent Advances in Thiophcne Chemistry International ReliLtions for Chemists Chemistry of ltockt't. and Jet. Propulsion Fuels Biological Nitrogen Fixation Fluorine and Its Compounds Organizational ami Adininist rational Problems in Chemi cal Control Work Mechanism of Knzymntic Syn thesis of Polysaccharides (Third annual Harrison Howe Lecture) Isotopie Tracers
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W. A. Mosher
Organic Oxidation Mechanisms
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H. D. Hartough
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Hans Svanoe
Recent Advances in Thiophcne Chemistry Crystallization
A. B. Garrett
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Kinetics of the Thermal De composition of Higher Hy drocarbons Vinyl Polymerization Measurement of the Driving Force» of Chemical Reactions Isotopie Tracers
R. H. Burris
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Firman Bear
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H. D. Hartough
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Alden H. Emery
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D. W. Young Geology of Tri-State Area A. W. Laubengayer Stereochemistry of Moron
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H. D. Hartough
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American Association of Textile Chem ists and Colorists, Northern New Eng land Section, Boston, Mass. Metropolitan Microchemical Society, American Museum of Natural His tory, New York, Ν. Y.
Recent Advances in the Chemotherapy of Malaria Recent Advances in Thiophcne Chemistry International Relations for Chemists
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J. C. Harris
Nonionic Synthetic Deter gents
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Edith Quimby
Some Uses of Radioactive Material in Medical Re search
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