H. D. Acaster returned t o the United States in September 1942, from Johannesburg, South Africa, where he had been engaged in construction and management of a chemical plant serving the South African gold industry, South African Cyanarnid
(Pty.), Ltd. He is now project manager for the Chemical Construction Corp. on a Defense Plant Corp. project in Texas.
Aaron Arnold has been appointed Head of the Nutritional Laboratory atWinthrop Chemical Co., Rensselaer, Ν. Υ.
William D. Anderson has retired as director, vice president, and general manager of foreign sales of the Atlantic Bcfining Co. A. A. Garrabrant has become general manager of foreign sales.
Philip S. Bolton has joined the Robert Gair Co., Inc., Ν. Υ. City, as research director. D. R. Buck» James B. Sipe & Co., has been elected president of the Pittsburgh Paint and Varnish Production Club. J. K. Hathaway was elected vice president and H. P. Ball secretary. Homer S. Burns, assistant vice president and power superintendent of the Freeport Sulphur Co., will retire September 1 after 30 years in the sulfur business.
William C. Appleton, president of the American Viscose Corp., has been appointed a member' of the executive committees of the Committee for Economic Development for Wilmington, Del., and Chester, Penna. The committee was recently organized to develop postwar planning programs, with particular emphasis on planning for full employment after the war.
Stewart P. Coleman has been given charge of the new program division in the Pe troleum Administration for War, Wash ington, D. C. Alexander K. Ginsburg, for 14 years pur chasing agent and traffic manager of the L. H. Butcher Co., Los Angeles, is now engaged in the full-time practice of law.
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THE ENGELHARD RECORDING PYROMETER is the ultimate answer to the n e e d for instrumentation designed to automatically measure and register tine operating temperatures of critical processes . . . It delivers a charted record which is dependably accurate, perfectly legible, and free from interruptions. The chart is easy to read, easy to file. From plan to finish, the Engelhard Recorder is designed and built for tough service life — bearings are large and long — castings ribbed and rugged — actuating power is several times greater than necessary . . . it delivers a precise, clear-cut picture of your temperature conditions, unaffected by water, dust, fumes and abuse!
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Frank 32. Hanson has severed his connec tion with the American Radiator & Stand ard Sanitary Corp., and is now employed by Servel, Inc., Êvansville, Ind., as a development engineer working on all-year air-conditioning. C. L. Huston, Jr., assistant t o the president and member of the board of directors of Lukens Steel Co., has been named president of Lukenweld, Inc., Coatesville, Penna. Mr. Huston succeeds Everett Chapman, who resigned to establish his own business as consulting engineer. James E. Kearney has been appointed chief engineer of the Swenson Evaporator Co., Division of Whiting Corp., Harvey, 111. He was formerly chemical engineer in charge of the Basic Magnesium Project at Las Vegas, Nev. Ivor Griffith, dean of pharmacy of the Philadephia College of Pharmacy and Science, has become director of research of the Frank H. Lee Co. He will continue his duties at the college. Dexter M. Keezer, deputy administrator, Office of Price Administration in charge of professional services, has resigned to join the Office of Lend-Lease. £>· Ralph Lee, Jr., is now assistant chief chemist for the Crown Central Petroleum Corp., Houston, Tex. He was formerly instructor in chemistry at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. James F. Mackey is at present doing plant research at the Sunray plant of the Continental Carbon Co., near Amarillo, Tex. William P. Marsh, Jr., and W. A. Griffen have been elected vice presidents of TJ. S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc. D. Metcalfe, formerly at the Houston finery Research Laboratory, Shell Oil L Co., has been transferred to the company's
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Fred E . Harrell, assistant chief engineer of the Reliance Electric & Engineering Co. since 1934, has been appointed chief engi neer of the company.
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Recently t h e workers of T h e Resinous P r o d u c t s & Chemical C o m p a n y were awarded the Army-Navy r r E." T h i s honor was given i n appreciation of their work in supplying aahesives for ply-wood air planes, gliders, boats—resins used in the production o f synthetic rubber, chemi cals, purification of medicines—and for supplying r e s i n s used i n c o a t i n g s for ships, tanks and airplanes.
Roy M. Schwab has been elected president of the Brunswig Drug Co., Los Angeles, succeeding Alexander Field, who becomes chairman of t h e board.
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the past 15 years he has been associated with the Cities Service System. Thomas S. Nichols, consultant, Chemical Division, WPB, is in London on special assignment with the Harriman Mission, handling problems connected with the Lend-Lease program. Walter E. Scheer has been appointed to the staff of Amecco Chemicals, Inc.,Rochester, N . Y., and will be in charge of the company's new branch office a t 60 East 42nd St., New York 17, N . Y. He was formerly in the employ of the Commercial Solvents Corp.
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CIETY, was awarded the Legion of Merit by the Commanding General of the Hawaiian Department May 26, 1943. Presentation was made at a ceremony June 24, at which Major Smith's outstanding work in designing and manufacturing emergency gas masks and modified standard mask for small children, was cited. Major Smith is on leave as an officer of the Pacific Guano and Fertilizer Co., while on active duty with the Ohenoical Warfare Service. Edward F. Starke, for of the Impregnole C pointed general mana,
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THIS SPROUT WALDEON MILL SPROUT WALDRON makes a number of defiberizing mi11« that are giving- excellent results and satisfactory performance in deftberizing rags, alpha pulp, -wood chips, asbestos, magnesia, flax and other materials. SPROUT WALDRON defii)erizing mills are manufactured i n sizes ranging from 12* to 3 6 " discs and from 3 to 30O H. P. Interchangeable plates of different d e s i g n make the s a m e nnit capable of handling a variety of materials. Its versatility i s further increased b y the range of speeds obtainable and by inlet and outlet arrangements. In addition to denberizing, it can granulate, pudverize and blend, making a n extremely useful, multi-purpose machine. O n e investment for several processes. Ask for literature and case records.
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which is a subsidiary"""of" the* Warwick Chemical Co. Warren H. Steinbach has resigned as assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Arkansas and has accepted a position in the Research Department of the Varcum Chemical Corp., Niagara Falls, N.Y. He will be assistant to R. D . McDonald, technical director, and will be active in the development of new resins and products. Floyd K. Thayer, consultant to the Drugs and Cosmetics Section, WPB, has resigned to return to the Abbott Laboratories, after 16 months with the WPB. Roy H. Walters has been appointed director of engineering research for the General Foods .Central Laboratories, and manager of research and development for the company. He has been with General Foods since 1934. L. F. Yntema, professor of chemistry at St. Louis University and head of the Department of Chemistry since 1930, has resigned to accept a research position with Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. in North Chicago. Harold^Zimmerman, formerly with the International Selling Corp., N . Y. City, has been promoted to captain in the Chemical Warfare Service. He i s stationed inpWashington, D. C. Placement of Recent Western Reserve University Graduates Recent Ph.D. graduates of Western Reserve have taken the following positions: Anthony Urbanic (colloid chemistry), B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. John H. Walkup (inorganic chemistry), research chemist, Pennsylvania Salt Co., Philadelphia, Penna. Arthur Drake (physical chemistry), Hercules Powder Co., Wilmington, Del. Harold W. Fleming (organic chemistry), research staff, Sherwm-Williams Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Fred E. Kendall (inorganic chemistry), Republic Steel Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Paul Carnell (inorganic chemistry), research staff, Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Okla. Everett XT. Case (organic chemistry), Chicago research laboratories, SherwinWilliams Co. Martval J. Hartig (organic chemistry), research staff, Standard Oil Co. of Ohio. Raymond Mattson (colloid chemistry), research chemist, Union Oil Co., Wilmington, Calif. Andrew Smith (organic chemistry), research chemist, Union Oil Co., Wilmington, Calif. Chinese and Russian Chemists to Be Honored Honorary membership in the Society of Chemical Industry will be bestowed upon Alexei Bach. Russian biochemist, and TePang Hou, Chinese industrial chemist, at a dinner meeting to be held at the WaldorfAstoria Hotel, Friday evening, October 22, when Wallace P. Cohoe of New York will be inducted as president of the society. The event, which will be under the patronage of King George VI, will be a continuation of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the society held in London July 9, at which Mr. Cohoe was elected president to succeed William Cullen of London, and which -was adAND
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j o w n e d to reconvene in New York City. Foster D. Sneil, head of Foster D . Snell, Inc., o f Brooklyn, chairman of the American Section of t h e society, will preside. Maadm Litvinoff, Russian Ambassador t o t h e United States, has been invited to receive t h e honor i n behalf of Dr. Bach. The presen tation to D r . Houus expected t o be made b y Or. Wei Taoming, Chinese Ambassador t o this country. Lord Halifax, British Ambas sador, is scheduled to present the insignia of office t o Mr. Cohoe. Dr. Bach's election to honorary member ship b y the Council of the society, meeting i n London, is, according t o the citation, "in commemoration of his life-long activities as a research worker in the realm of biochemistry, which branch of chemical science he has e n riched by h i s pioneering work". D r . Bach studied at Kiev University and received t h e degree of doctor of science from Lausanne University. His most important work deals with oxidation processes i n living organisms. Together with Professor Zbarsky he e s tablished the Chemical Institute named after Χι. Karpov, and is now its director. t n 1920 he established the Biochemical I n stitute under t h e People's Commissariat for Health, and both prior to this and since h e h a s been responsible for many scientific papers which have won for him and his c o workers international renown. A statement b y Dr. Cullen pointed out that m honoring D r . Bach t h e society "pays tribute to all Russian scientists who work within our sphere of activity". Dr. Cullen said, Much has happened since Mendeliev*8 days though be only died i n 1907, and the support which science and scientists are now receiving from the Soviet Government is an example to all of us. for in no other country has science been so closely integrated with the life of the people. Russian scientists and we are today fighting a common cause; we bo*th desire to destroy evil things, to make life sweeter, t o preserve liberty of thought and of action, and t o work together for the good of humanity. Dr. Hou, now in New York, is vice presi dent and engineer-in-chief of Yungli Chemi c a l Industries, Ltd. In 1913 he entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated in chemical engineer i n g in 1917. From Columbia University h e received the M~A. degree in chemical engi neering in 1919, and the Ph.D. in 1921. As chief engineer of the Pacific Alkali Com pany, Ltd., he supervised t h e construction of t h e first ammonia soda plant on the continent o f Asia in Xangku, 30 miles outside Tientsin. Onder Dr. HoiTs direction, a group of new plants was erected b y this company on t h e north bank of t h e Yangtze, opposite Nan king. These plants were i n operation in the spring of 1937, just a few months before t h e Japanese invasion. A plan for a third group of heavy chemical industries was worked out b y Dr. Hon, to b e located at "Wutungchiao i n the province of Szechwan, for t h e development of resources i n the vast hinterland of China for a -war of attrition with Japan. Designs and drawings for the new chemical plants were completed and purchases o f the necessary machinery and equipment made. B u t the closing of t h e Burma Road after t h e fall of Burma made i t impossible to ship t h e machinery and equipment and s e t up the plants, which, it i s declared, might have changed the course of t h e war in t h e Far East.
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Technical Men T h e w a r has carried t h e manufacturing age to a n e w peak! Production d e m a n d s have created technical problems the l i k e of -which the w o r l d h a s never s e e n be fore! T h e services of engineers are a t a premium. Especially t h e services o f o n e particular class—executive engineers— engineers with business training e n g i n e e r s w h o can "run die s h o w . " I n these critical t i m e s , the nation n e e d s engineers of executive ability now, today —not five, o r ten years from n o w ! T h e shortage of such m e n i s acute—even more acute than that o f skilled p r o d u c tion workers. And company heads, a w a r e ofthis situation, are offering high r e w a r d s to engineers w h o have the necessary training in industrial management*
Golden Opportunity for Engineers In "this n e w era, the engineer w i t h vision a n d foresight has a g o l d e n o p p o r tunity. H e w i l l realize that out of today's tremendous production battles w i l l emerge technical m e n w h o not o n l y w i l l play a major role in w i n n i n g d i e w a r , but w h o also will b e firmly e n t r e n c h e d in keyexecutivepositionswhenpcaceconaes. H o w e v e r , b e f o r e the engineer can take over executive responsibilities, h e muse acquire k n o w l e d g e of t h e other d i v i s i o n s of business—of m a r k e t i n g , accounting and finance. H e h a s o f necessity a vase amount of technical training and e x p e rience. But i n order t o grasp the o p p o r tunities that present themselves t o d a y — to a s s u m e leadership o n t h e production front—he must also have an understand ing of practical business principles a n d methods. T h e Alexander H a m i l t o n Institute's in tensive executive training can give y o u this essential business training t o s u p plement your technical skill.
FREE help for engineers Ever since the war began» there has been a n unusually heavy demand o n the part of ouur technically-trained subscribers for the Insti tute's special «uide o n "How t o Prepare a n Engineering Report". Extra copies of t h i s practical, helpful 72>page Guide are nowavailable and, for a limited time only, w i l l b e sent free t o all technical men who use t h e coupon at the right.
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1 3 4 , 0 0 0 m e n o n the o p e r a t i n g side of business have enrolled for this training. M o r e than 3 7 , 5 0 0 are technical m e n e n g i n e e r s , chemists, metallurgists—many o f w h o m are today heads o f o u r huge w a r industries. T h i s training appeals to engineers be cause it gives them access to the t h i n k i n g a n d e x p e r i e n c e o f t h e country's great business m i n d s . It is especially valuable t o such m e n because i t is basic, not spe cialized—broad i n s c o p e , p r o v i d i n g a t h o r o u g h g r o u n d w o r k i n the fundamen tals u n d e r l y i n g all business. It covers the principles that every t o p executive must understand. I t applies t o all types of in dustrial organizations, because all types o f organizations are based o n these same fundamentals.
Business and Industrial Leaders Contribute T h e Institute's training plan h a s the e n d o r s e m e n t o f leading industrialists and business m e n . A n d i t i s only because these h i g h - r a n k i n g executives recognize i t s value and give their cooperation that s u c h a plan i s possible. A m o n g those w h o contribute t o die Course are such men as Frederick W . Pickard, Vice President and Director, E. I. D u P o n t d e N e m o u r s & Co.; T h o m a s J. W a t s o n , President, International Business M a c h i n e s Corp.; James E>. M o o n e y , Presi dent, G e n e r a l Motors Overseas Corp.; Clifton Slusser, V i c e President, G o o d y e a r T i r e a n d Rubber C o . and Colby Mi Chester, Chairman of t h e Board, General F o o d s Corp.
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