Events during t h e Month, of Interest to Chemists, Chemical Engineers, Executives
7 JUSE 1. C.S. Senate unanimously passes RlcMahon bill for national civilian control of atomic energy. 7 J V N E 2. American Viscose conducts “advanced seminar on rayon” for deans and instructors of eight textile schools.-l\-ar Ascets Administration affers for sale Louisville, Ky., synthetic rubber plant, operatrtl by B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co. during war. JUNE3. Reynolds Metals Co. announces successful completion of its first shipment of aluminum by water and says it was much less expensive than by rail.--Blaw I h o s acquires assets and business of Buflorak Xorthn-est Co. r JUNE 4. At hearing before House Committee on Patents, R. J. Dearborn, chairman Committee on Patents and Research, rational Associatioil of Manufacturers, says government-owned patents should be made available to citizens of U. S..--War Department announces contract with G E for atomic energy research and development including transfer of operation of $347,000,000 government-owned plant a t Hanford, Wash., from du Pont to GE.--Henry Ford I1 reveals plans for construction of $50,000,000 research and engineering center on 500-acre tract in Dearborn, XIich.lN-Security Council Subcommittee that investigated Spain says exclusion of Franco regime from US‘bars effective international control of atomic energy.
r JUNE5 . Vannevur Bush, president Carnegie Institute, proposes Army ground and air forces and S a v y be required to unify their military research and development. --Spencer Chemical Co. takes over Jayhan k Ordnance Works, a wartime nitrogen plant near Pittsburg, Kans., for production of basic industrial and agricultural chemicals.--Air Reduction Co. and U. S. Industrial Chemicals, h e . , announce plans to build new chemical research laboratory in Stamford, Conn.1 r JUXE 6. Leaders of American chemical industry a t annual meeting of Manufacturing Chemists’ Association at Skytop, Pa., sce several years of record salcs after 1946.--Harry L. Derby, president American Cyanamid & Chemical Corp., tells MCA in annual meeting that if pcrniitted to rehabilitate its chemical industry and retain plant facilities to provide munitions, Germany may become a threat to world peace. r JUNE7. State Department officials say reciprocal trade pacts with foreign countries will not be issued until after the UX preliminary trade conference.--American Viscose announces acquisition of Sylvania Industrial Corp. “Robert E. Wilson, chairman of board Standard Oil Co. of Ind., is elected to life membership in the Corporation of MIT. r J u x s 8. J. M. Jardine, president University of Wichita, rcvcnls discovery of nea strain of penicillin by Wxyne Simmonds, which has potentialities possibly greater than those now used commercially. 1
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7 JUXE 9. Office of Publication Board reports German research workers claim to have developed experimental plant u hich simultaneously pasteurizes and cnriches vitamin D content of milk by ultraviolet light.- --E rank H. Kelley, Jr., representative Bell Aircraft Corp., sags lien ly developed “bug bomber”, a specially equipped helicopter, will bc tested on a crop spraying and dusting project in the Takima Yalley, \Yash.--Rear Admiral A. C . Rend, Sr., says potential defenses aga,inst atomic bomb are already in outline stage. 5 JUNE10. WAA says Spencer Chemical Co. has leased government-owned ammonium nitrate plants a t Parsons, Kans., MacGrcgor, Tex., and Baxter Springs, Kans., and Lion Oil Co. those nt Minden, La., and Texarkana, Tex., for production of fertilizer. “WAA recommends sale of 10 government-owned synthetic rubber plants. --Xational Fertilizer Association, in response to a special message from President Truman, pledges increased help to farmers by supplying fertilizers for production of more food to satisfy Rorld needs.
7 JUNE11. Secretary of War Patterson urges House of Representatives to pass McMahon bill for control of atomic energy.-Socony Vacuum Oil markets Mobil-flame, a liquid petroleum gas. JUKE12. Fred C. Shaneman, president Pennsylvania Salt Mfg., says company has begun ronstruction of new $1,000,000 chemical plant on Willamette River near Portland..--War Department officials say $2,500,000 atomic power plant a t Oak Ridge, Tenn., is expected to be ready for experimental operation by January l.--h-avy joins Army in endorsing Senate legislation to create 5-member civilian commission for domestic control of atomic energy.
7 JUXE13. War Department discloses by-products from atom plants mill be distributed to schools, hospitals, and laboratories of science and industry.--Senator Connally says any agreement for international control of atomic energy must be bound in a treaty from which no signatory country could deviate..-L-. S. District Court grants defendants in antitrust suit against American Petroleum Institute and major oil companies an extension of time to July 22.~-Military officials of Army-Navy Petroleum Board a t Annapolis witness successful demonstration of synthetic gasoline and Diesel fuel from natural gas.--Glenn L. Martin Co. announces plans to construct first units of a $1,500,000 chemical plant near Painesville, Ohio. JL-NE 14. Linus Pauling receives Willard Gibbs hledal for outstanding research at meeting of Chicago Section, ACS. “Representatives of 12 nations convene in attempt to insure dcvclopment of atomic energy will advance, instead of destroy, mankind.--Bernard M. Baruch, a t first meeting of U N Atomic Energy Commission, says U. S. will tell bomb secret, and destroy bomb, if UN establishes controls and bans veto. --Senate passes amended legislation approving Bikini atoll
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8 JUNE 15. Senator Eugene D. Millikin demands speedy Allied agreement on peace treaties before U.S. moves to entrust atomic secrets to international control, but Senator McMahon, chairman of Senate Atomic Energy Committee, disagrees and believes atomic decisions reached in N. Y. will have greater bearing on future peace than agreements made in Paris. 7 JUNE 16. Senator Mitchell asserts government agencies are blocking development of a competitive aluminum industry. Pennsylvania Salt Co. is producing neu- insecticide, hexachlorocyclohexane, which has 10 times the killing power of DDl’, on experimental basis.--Universal Match Corp. introduces new Aqua-Pruf water-resistant strike-any-u-here match which corporation claims will light after indefinite exposure t o moisture.-Board of Directors, American Viscose, approves appropriation for preparation of plant site of company’s new plant at Kadford, Va.--R. J. Dearborn urges prompt Senate action on five bills designed to bring about constructive changes in patent system. --John Steele, national commander, American Legion, says Legion opposes giving atomic power secrets t o U S until Big Four have shown they have no “imperialistic aims”.--J. T. Shotwell, chairman committee on Atomic Energy, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, issues proposal for international control of atomic energy similar to Baruch proposal but retaining veto power and leaving to Security Council primary responsibility for punishment of violations of atomic bomb regulations. 7 JUNE17. Interagency Policy Committee on Rubber in report to War Mobilization and Reconversion recommends early disposal of 25 synthetic rubber plants which would be unessential to a national lubber program.--King George, opening Empire parley, cites atom values and warns against curbs on study.-Federation of American Scientists announces formation of Committee for Foreign Correspondence to re-establish prewar international scientific collaboration.-wR. J. Dearborn says Atomic Energy Control bill as recently passed by Senate is so unduly restrictive as “to jeopardize our system of private initiative and free enterprise”.--hlonsanto announces plastic that puts new life in old oil wells, accomplishing what is believed to be far greater efficiency and economy than any material previoiisly used.
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7 JUNE18. House Military Committee rejects Senate proposal to place domestic development of atomic energy in 5-man civilian commission and votes military two places.--Interior Secretary J. A. Krug names 85 men to new National Petroleum Council, an industry committee u hich will advise him on oil and gas.--Du Pont establishes new nylon section in chemical division of ammonia department to centralize research and development work on chemical8 used in making nylon.--Johns Hopkiis establishes Institute for Cooperative Research t o work M ith Government and industry on scientific projects, President Isaiah Bowman announces. 7 JUNE 19. Soviet Union offers substitute plan for out.lawing atomic bombs which would ban their use or retention but would keep Big-Power veto.--House Military Affairs Committee votes t o strengthen Army’s control over atomic bomb production by giving it power to make its own weapons.--Bakelite Corp. announces acquisition of former Inland Rubber Co.’s plant near Ottawa, Ill., for manufacture ‘of Vinylite plastics.--?*Z. D. Coulter, Goodyear’s research staff, announces F. F. Pliofilm, a frozen foods packaging material which will remain flexible at -20” F. 7 JUNE21. J. C. Turrells, director Cluett Peabody’s Sanforizing division, announces new chemical process said to stabilize viscose rayon fabrics so they can be washed without danger of appreciable shrinkage or stretch.---W, Z. Hassid, 31. Doiidoroff, and H. A. Barker, research workers a t University of California, receive
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first intermediate $5000 award from National Science Fund of National Academy of Science for original studies which may enable scientists to learn more about sugar in the diet.--Brig. Gen. William H. Draper says U. S. Army authorities have stopped dumping captured German ammunition into the sea, and are salvaging it for fertilizer. --Royal Society (London) proposes a t least f1,000,000 be spent on research in fundamental subjects, excluding cost of buildings or salaries. 6 JUNE22. Sir Alfred Egerton, a t Royal Society’s Empire Science Conference, suggests atomic bomb pits be used as reservoirs for water distilled from the sea. r JUXE24. Dummy atomic bomb falls amid fleet in Bikini dress rehearsal.--hPrauda, official organ of the Communist party, flatly rejects U. S. proposals for control of atomic bomb as’instiument of war. (T JUXE 25. Atomic Energy Commission of U S unanimously approves proposal by €1. V. Evatt of Australia that h 12-memEer committee be formed to take up suggestions made during general discussions.--CP.-l grants Diamond Alkali Co. permission to construct a $5,750,000 electrochemical plant at Houston, Tex. ---L. W. Chubb, director Westinghouse Research Laboratories, announces plans for big atomic research program with conversion of atomic energy into a useful source of power for peacetime use. --UN Atomic Eiergy Commission sets up “committee of the whole” to draft plan for world control and development of atomic snergy. --Atomic Trades and Labor Council, AFL, petitions Xational Labor Relations Board for representation elections in three principal plants working on atomic energy.--Rutgem University gets 20 prefabricated aluminum buildings originally intended for use of troops in South Pacific. T; JUNE26. J. Oostermeyer, president Shell Chemical Co., says company will begin soon to produce petroleum-derived chemical, glycerin epichlorohydrin, for use in manufacturing plastics, fumigants, and industrial solvents.--CPA says 9 industrial alcohol plants, representing almost total facilities of the industry, have shut down because of lack of molasses. --KAA offers for sale or lease complete silica alumina catalyst manufacturing plant with rated capacity of 10,800 tons a year.---Attorney General Clark announces filing in U. S. District Court at Cleveland civil action charging‘ 3 lecithin manufacturers with violation of antitrust laws.--Bernard XI. Baruch drafts J. R. Oppenheimer, director of Desert 1,aboratory where first atomic bomb was produced, for post in V. S. Delegation to U S Atomic Energy Commission, Chas. G. Ross, President Truman’s secretary, says. --House Appropriations Committee approves appropriation of $660,000 for I?.S. Delegation to U S Atomic Energy Commission. J U X E 27. Industry through it advisory committee, asks C’PA to remove use controls on oils in paint and varnish manufacture.--Farrington Daniels, director XI6tallurgical Lnboratory, University of Chicago, in report to ACS points out uranium might be substituted for gold in our monetary system. --Federal Grand Jury in Denver returns indictment charging 6 corporations and 5 individuals \Tit11 antitrust violations in vanadium industry. 7 J U N E 28. E. D. Bransome, president Vanadium Corp., denies charges of conspiracy to monopolize and fix vanadium prices. ---P. Cherenkov, Lvriting in Zzvestia, says work of Alexander P. Zhdanov on new aspects of atom splitting, which won him a Stalin prize, opens a new page in nuclear physics.--Empire Scientific Conference, Cambridge. England, adopts resolution calling for U N International Organization to control airborne pests. 7 JUNE 30. OPA pi~ice controls end at midnight.--Atomic bomb explodes over Bikini fleet, sinking 5 ships, damaging 31, and with rclativcly fei\-, if any, of remaining ships escaping some damage.
