INDUSTRIAL and ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
News
Vol. 31, Consecutive No. 16
EDITION
Published by the
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY HARRISON E. HOWE, Editor
APRIL 20, 1939
V O L U M E 17
NUMBER 8
Baltimore Registration Tops 4 0 0 0
S
EVENTEEN divisions,
presenting a total of 509 papers b y 780 authors, drew an attendance of more than 4000 to the 97th Meeting of the AMERICAN
CHEMICAL
SOCIETY
at Baltimore a s guests of the Maryland Section, April 3 to 7. Visits to 29 plants and points of chemical interest in Baltimore and t o Annapolis and Edgewood Arsenal supplied added attraction. Registration at Baltimore made this one of the largest meetings in the
SOCIETY'S history,
second only t o the New York meeting of 1935 in size. Beginning with the Council meeting on Monday morning, the sessions continued through the business and general meeting of Monday afternoon to divisional programs given on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Headquarters were at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, and divisional meetings were held in the Fifth Regiment Armory. The Division of Rubber Chemistry held its meetings and dinner in the Emerson Hotel. At Monday afternoon's business meeting unanimously affirmative action was taken by the SOCIETY on the resolutions terminating the trust agreement with the United States Trust Co. of New York according to the notice given all members in the N E W S EDITION of December 10, 1938 (16,
633). Following this, presentations were made of the Borden Award in the Chemistry of Milk t o Leroy S. Palmer and of the Eli Lilly and Company Award in Biological Chemistry to George Wald. "Isotopes as a Tool in the Study of Intermediary Metabolism" was the subject of an address by Vincent du Vigneaud, of Cornell University Medical College, before Monday's general meeting. H. G. Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution, spoke on "The Chemical Industry and the Economic System." Honoring Baltimore's first chemical industry, the manufacture of illuminating gas begun in 1816, President-Elect Lind
Rubber Chemistry Dinner.
O n e o f tHe r e g i s t r a t i o n l i n e s unveiled a tablet presented by t h e Maryland Section a n d placed on t h e building of t h e Consolidated Gas, Electric Light. and Power Co., successor t o t h e original Baltimore Gas Light C o . Herbert A. Wagner, president of t h e company, accepted t h e tablet. T h e wording of t h e tablet i s : TO COMMEMORATE T H E INAUGURATION OF A CHEMICAL INDUSTRY I N AMERICA T H E MANUFACTURE OF I L L U M I N A T I N G GAS The first franchise in America to produce and distribute gas for public use was granted in 1816 by this city to the Baltimore Gas Light Company, established by Rembrandt Feale, William Lorman, James Mosher, Robert Cary Long, and William Gwynn. In the exercise of this franchise, gas has been supplied uninterruptedly by the original company and its successors. This tablet is erected on the premises of the direct descendant of the pioneer company.
Le£t t o right.
ERECTED B Y
THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MARYLAND SECTION APRFL 3, 1939
T h e divisional meetings, beginning Tuesday morning, included 14 symposia on t h e following subjects: New Federal Food, Drug, a n d Cosmetic Act; Industrial Utilization of Dairy Products; Vitamins and Nutrition; Endocrines; Application of Micro- a n a Semimicromethods t o I n dustry; American Cellulose Chemistry in 1939; History of Medicinal Chemistry in Baltimore; Theories and T e a c h i n g of A c i d s a n d Bases; Colloids and Water a n d Waste Treatment: T h e Role of Catalysis in Petroleum Chemistry; Thermal Insulation; Determination of Molecular Structure b y Diffraction Methods; Fundamentals of Heterogeneous Catalysis; Synthetic Rubber a n d Elastic Polymers. Institutional a n d industrial trips were taken throughout t h e week. T h e following points of special chemical interest were open t o inspection: American Sugar Refining C o . ; Éaltimore Copper Works; American Smelting a n d Renning C o . ; Baltimore H e a l t h Department Laboratories; Baltimore P u r e R y e Distilling Co.; Bethlehem Steel Corp.; Calvert Distillery; Coca-Cola C o . ; Crown Cork and Seal C o . ; Davison Chemical Corp.; Emerson Drug Co.; Federal Food and Drug Administration Laboratories; Gas and Electric C o . Laboratory; Gas and Electric C o . Plant; Hynson, Westcott, and Dunning, I n c . ; Maryland Glass Corp.; Maryland Public Health Association Laboratories· McCormick a n d Co., Inc.; Montebeuo Filters; Noxzema Chemical C o . : Sewage Disposal Plant; Standard Oil Renning Co.; U . S. Customs Laboratories; U . S. Industrial Alcohol Co. ; Western Electric Co., Point Breeze Plant; Williams a n d Wilkins Publishing Co.; T h e Johns Hopkins University; t h e University of Maryland; Loyola College; and Goucher College. Special group meetings included 41 scheduled breakfasts, luncheons, and din-
C. R. Boggs a n d W . B. Wiegand; Ira Williams a n d L . B . Sebrell ; Webster N . J o n e s a n d R. P . Dinsmoro 265
H . G. M o u l t o n a d dresses t h e General M © e t i n g - o n "The Chemical Industry and the Economic System" P r e s i d e n t K r a u s preside at the Banquet
A r t h u r B. L a m b a n d W i l l i a m Â. N o y e s
Left. P r e s i d e n t K r a u s pres e n t s t h e Eli Lilly a n d C o m p a n y Award for 1939 t o George Wald
T h o m a s Midgley 0 Jr., Chairman of the B o a r d of Directors, addresses the m e e t i n g
Below. P r e s i d e n t K r a u s pres e n t s t h e B o r d e n Award for 1939 t o Leroy S. P a l m e r
ners, supplemented by numerous other informal gatherings. Entertainment features began with an ice carnival on Monday evening at Carlin's Park followed by a buffet supper in the arena. Members of the Ice Club of Baltimore and of the Granite Club of Toronto, Canada, presented skating features. Some 25
members
of
the
mâém Vincent d u Vigneaud delivers a n address o n " I s o t o p e s a s a Tool i n t h e S t u d y of I n t e r mediary Metabolism'* before t h e General Meeting
SOCIETY
skated following the formal program. A Chemical Ballet with music representingPresident Isaiah Bowman of The Johns Hopkins University, President Harry C. Byrd of the University of Maryland, and President David Allan Robertson of Goucher College. President Charles A. Kraus presided as toastmaeter. Dancing followed. Thursday afternoon was devoted to an excursion t o Annapolis to visit the Naval Academy and the Naval Engineering Station. Edgewood Arsenal and the Chemical Warfare Service were hosts t o the SOCIETY on an all-day excursion on Friday. Chemical weapons were demonstrated
and pilot plants for their manufacture were visited. Entertainment for the ladies included sightseeing trips around Baltimore, tea at Goucher College, visits to the silversmithing plants of Samuel Kirk and Sons and the Stieff Co., the publishing house of Williams and Wilkins, the spice grinding plant of McCormick & Co., and the Walters Art Gallery. A t the Peabody Conservatory of Music o n Wednesday morning, the ladies were entertained at a recital and at the May Co. they were guests at luncheon and a style show, followed by bridge.
M . L. Rushmore and £ . F . Marsiglio of Merck & C o . , I n c . by the Symphonic Ensemble of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and with solos by Reinald Werrenrath, baritone, provided Tuesday evening's entertainment. The ballet under the direction of Miss Carol Lynn was based on a scenario by A. R. L. Dohme depicting atomic vibrations and was set to music suited to the changing frequencies. D . H. Andrews and L. Mauk composed the ballet music. This evening was generally acclaimed as setting a new high point in chemical entertainment. Wednesday evening's banquet was followed by addresses by D . H. Andrews,
The Directors" Dinner
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