Esso Oi/ways (Penola, Inc., 26 Broadway, T HE New York City) is perhaps scarcely the place where
Illinois) continues its excelIent series of reproductions of pictures by war artists, with a set on "Naval med~ icine" in the September, 1944, number. Incidentally, the same number contains a splendid "Story of blood plasma."
one would look for an artieIe on penicillin. Nevertheless, the October, 1944, number contains an ex.cellent article on this subject, well illustrated, which describes the production of this substance in the Lederle Laboratories. Another article in the same number flescribes the use of a new type of aviation instrument oil which is used in several of the modern aviation in-
"Importance of research in postwar business," is the title of a short article in the Copper Alloy Bulletin (Bridgeport Brass Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut) for October, 1944.
struments.
Another account of the use of plastics in the production of modern military planes is found in the September-October, 1944, Dupont Magazine (E. 1. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Delaware). And there is also described, along the line of chemical warfare, the manufacture and use of cellophane as a protective agent against mustard gas attack. For~ tunately, we haven't as yet come to its actual use. Another article in this same number, in lighter vein, is a story of nylon and its appearance and disappearance amongst us.
Another article on penicillin is to be found in the September, 1944, number of the Squibb Memoranda (E. R. Squibb and Sons, 745 Fifth Ave., New York City). This article describes particularly the use of penicillin in the prevention of infection of wounds. The Autumn number of the Interchemical Review (Interchemical Corporation, 432 West 45th St., New York City) contains, like all the preceding numbers we have seen, much that is of chemical interest. The first article in this number is entitled, "Particle size analysis," an important topic in colloid chemistry and physics.
One interesting article in the current number, vol. 6, no. 4, of Steel Horizons (Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania) tells of the process of recording sound on wire; another, entitled I "Navigation with pinpoint accuracy," describes the! use of the new Gyro Flux Gate compass, which is going I a long way toward revolutionizing aerial navigation.
Of several articles in the September number of The Lamp (Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City), one describes, "Twentyfive years of research," in the field of oil technology. Several pages of colored pictures also portray "Oil in the Indian theater." The current number, vol. 8, no. 2, of The Process Industries Quarterly (International Nickel Company, 67 Wall St., New York City) tells how vanillin, or synthetic vanilla, is recovered from lignin in waste sulfite liquor. One of the most recent and comprehensive accounts of the work of the Chemical Warfare Service and of the weapons which it has most recently developed is to be found in the Merck Report (Merck & Company, Inc., Rahway, New Jersey) for October, 1944. This article is authoritative, having been written by Major General William F. Porter, Chief of the CWS.
Accompanying the Electromet Review (Electro Metallurgical Company, 30 East 42nd St., New York City) for October, 1944, is a spectacular color picture of an electric arch furnace in operation.
What's New (Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago,
There are two articles of general chemical interest in the September, 1944, number of The Rohm &: Haas Reporter (Rohm & Haas Company, Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). One, on "Orotan," describes the use of this new substitute for vegetable tannin. Another tells of the new Redux method for bonding metal to metal and metal to wood, a process which is finding valuable application in the construction of airplanes.
In the October, 1944, number of the Indus/rial Bulletin of Arthur D. Little, Inc. (30 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts) are two short articles on the use of resins. The first of these describes the new type of contact pressure resins, which are liquids which may be heated to cause partial thickening or hardening of the resins, in which state they resemble thermoplastics. The other article describes compreg-, a wood I impregnated with resin and then compressed, which is ' finding many uses in structural materials, etc.
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