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N o v e m b e r ’ s HEADLINES Events of Interest to Chemists, Chemical Engineers, and 7 SOVEJIBER 1. Glenn T. Seaborg, University of California, codiscoverer of plutonium, is announced as winner of Wni. €1. Sich01s Medal of Xeiv York Section, BCS, presentation to be made March 5, 1948l.--Goodyear Tire &Rubber announces Pliofilm is again available to fabricators.-u-President’s Council of Economic Advisers in report suggests U. S. increase its exports of nitrogenous fertilizers to Europe which ~r-ouldmean restoration of domestic end-use controls.--Du Pont sets up mobile laboratory to test petroleum chemicals in motor fucel a t El Xonte, Calif. f X o v E i f B E R 3. Leonard P. Schultz, a Sniithsonian Institution scientist, s a y fish life in the area of Bikini atoll has returned practically to normal. --K. E. Cake, assistant managing director, plantation division, C . S. Rubber, reveals that natural rubber latex is being produced in sufficient quantity in Malaya and Sumatra to indicate maintenance of expanding deliveries. --E. F. Goodrich Co. announces new “winter type” camel back for recapping tires.
7 SOVEJIBER 4. ATew England Textile Foundation announces it will award as many as thirty $500 freshman scholarships in 1948 G. Skelly, in the four textile schools of Sew England.--IF“. former president Mission Corp. and Pacific Western Oil Corp., files to block suit of proposed merger of Mission and Sunray Oil Corp.-NU. S. Department of Agriculture plans long-time project under Research and Uarketing Act to search for new and improved antibiotics from agricultural sources that will be effective against various diseases. T[ K O V E M B E R 5. Commerce Department reports exports of rubber products and materials declined in September for fourth month.--Government officials deny London reports that U. S. has agreed to cut use of synthetic rubber in tires.--Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports September dry casein production Commerce Commishighest for month since 19il.--Interstate sion adds ammonium nitrate fertilizer and trifluorochloroethylene to list of explosives and other dangerous articles.--Ethel L. French, chairman Rochester Section, ACS, announces that Carl F. Cori and Gert’y T. Cori, eo-winners of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Medicine, will give third Harrison Howe lecture2.
7 SOVEJIBER 7. George W.AIerck, president hlerck & Co., at meeting in Sen. York, receives 1947 Chemical Industry lledal of American Section Society of Chemical Industry for “outstanding accomplishment in the field of pharmaceuticals carried out undcr his leadership by Merck Bi Co., and for his wartime contributions to chemical industry.”--General Sniline and Film COrp. an-ards contract for construction of 3-story manufacturing building at Rensselaer, N. Y.3
7 XOVEMBER 8. Sun Oil builds independent research department at Newtown Square, Pa., t o house all its study work in petrochemical and physical research‘.
7 S o v E m m R 11. D e w y et hlmy Chemical Co. operis new solvent plant a t Acton, Mass., H . s. Ferguson, general nianager, announces.--American Potash & Chemical Corp. completes 5300,000 research laboratory office building in Los Angeles and subdivision of 47 homes a t its Trona plant‘. --Lawrence Ollingcr~prcsident U. S. Plywood, announces C. S. Plywood and €Iartior Plywood Corp. Lr-ill begin construction ininiediately on a $2,000,000 plywood plant a t Anderson, Calif.--T\-ational Research Council reports llerck Fellowships for the academic year 1918-43 are available.-nChem-Tech Producers Corp. is fornictl f o r export of chemicals and chemical plant equipment, LIartin Bernhartlt, grnera1 manager, says.--U. S. Rubber announces new rubbrlr conipound for sealing concrete highways. ----C. S. Ruhher eeases operations a t its synthetic rubber plant a t Institute, K. Ya., plmt 13enediet, d i r c ~ t o r manager P. E. Rice announces.--Manson of process development, Hydrocarbon Research, Inc., antl 1,ouis C. Rubin, manager of research, 11.W.Kellogg Co., receive Killiam H. Walker .%nard for wartime achievements in aiding in distillation of toluene at meeting of American Institute of Chi:micaI Engineers in Detroit.--Warren R. Austin, permanent U. S.delegate t o UN,a t 30th annual dinner of Foreign Press Xssociation in Yen- Pork, says Soviet Union probably is a long m y Eroni producing atomic bombs.
7 SOVEXBER 12. Preliminary statistics of Commerce Ikj,artment show manufacturers’ consumption of natural rubber in September exceeded imports and use of synthetic rubber i n excess of domestic consumption. --Eagle-Picher completes new plant at Clark, Sev., to process diatomaceous earth, T. C. Carter, vice president in charge of insulation and diatomaceous earth, xnnounces. --\Teller Xoble, chairman Board Sational Association, and president Pacific Guano Co., at group’s southern convention warns that any fertilizer shipped abroad under Marshall plan will limit t o that extent amounts available to American farmers. --Agricultural Research Administration ssys substantial new uses of soybean glue are in offing. 7 x O V E I \ f B E R 13. Sir Robert Robinson, authority on synt hcsis and eo-discoverer of artificial sex hormones, stilboestrol antl hesoestrol, wins 1947 Sobel Prize in Chemistry, and Sir Edward 1-ictor Xppleton, the Nobel Prize in Physics; latter gives c r d i t to J. H. Bellinger, National Bureau of Standards, who cooperated in investigations t h a t helped lay groundwork for radar5. Charles Edison, former Secretary of the Navy, speaking hefore annual national conference on Government of National IIunicipal Leagues, urges atomic bomb control, and declares present curbs could pass too easily into hands of enemies.-NJohn hl. IIancock, former member U. S. delegation t o UNAEC, says report that SO-
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7 SOVEMBER 10. Parke Davis & Co., chemists, isolate new weapon against tuberculosis, chloromycetin, related t o streptomycin, but said t o be capable of being taken by mouth without 8 4
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harmful results. -,-E.S. Department of Agriculture makes first annual presentation of honor awards in recognition of exccptionai contributions of its employees t o efficient and constructive public service; a number of chemists receive awards.- -Supreme Court upholds Justice Department antitrust suit against International Salt Co. and says company must cease requiring leased machines t o use its products. --Commerce Department reports chemical products machinery, dairy products, and textile nianufactures led September export dee1inc.--Goodyear Tire 6: Rubber announces production of its 25 millionth tire.--1iitercheniical Corp. acquires 5150,000 3-acre tract to erect plant for nianufacture of printer’s ink in Elizabeth, S . J.
7 SOVEMBER 9. Foreign Liquidation Commissioner Donald H. Connolly, extends deadline for submitting bids for parts of tR-o German chemical plants offered as reparation t o American industrialists.
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viet Union has tested an atomic bomb in Siberia is a ruse to get technical information.N-Navy Captain Shields Karren, medical researcher in atomic energy, says survivors of atomic bombing a t Kagasaki are about normal now..y-George -4. Sloan, president Xutrition Foundation, announces a t annual meeting of board of trustees in Keiv Tork that grants-in-aid exceeding $1,510,000 for fundamental research in the science of nutrition have been made to date to 57 universities and medical centers in the U.S. and It*.Flett, new products division director, Sational Canada.--L. Aniline Division, Allied Chemical & Dj-e, predicts annual production of synthetic detergents will reach 3,000,000,000lb. xvithin 10 to 15 years.
7 SOTEMBER 1i. The Royal Society, Britain’s oldest scientific hod)-, bestow its Davy Medal on Linus C. Pauling for distinguished contributions to the theory of valency and for their application to systems of biological importance.NrrRepreseiitati\.r Shafcr tells House Armed Services subcommittee at first public hearing in Ohio that major rubber companies are nearing an agreement on disposal of government’s synthetic rubber plants. -RepresentativesofU. S.,Canada, and the United Kingdom begin 3-day conference in n’ashington on atomic security problems-.
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7 S o v E i r B E R 15. USdEC issues regulation effective S o v . 20 requiring license of persons intending to manufacture or export facilities capable of producing any fissionable material. U.6. Bureau of Mines says esperiments have proved that 915,000,000,000tons of lignite in S o r t h Dakota, Montana, and South Dakota are potential producers of fuel gas for industry.---L I). Duncan, vice president Glidden Co., says $1,000,000modernization program is under way at four of its major paint and varnish plants.
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7 SOVEYBER 16. Plastic Manufacturers Association and Conimodity Standards Division, Sational Bureau of Standards, adopt commercial standard for molded urea plastics.--Special mission of European fertilizer experts says western Europe is producing nitrogen fertilizers a t current capacity.-.-U. S.Department of Agriculture pushes 160 projects in research in first year’s rvork under Research and Marketing Act. 7 SOYEMBER 17. Representative Jamie L. Whitten (AIiss.) asks House Appropriations Committee to investigate fully domestic shortage of nitrogen fertilizers before Congress votes emergency aid to Europe.-NOffice of International Trade lifts quinine esports curb for first time since embargo was established in April 1942. 7 SOYEMBER 18. Robert C. Elderfield, professor
of chemistry Columbia University, a t meeting of Western Kew York Section. ACS, says new antimalarial drug which \Till effect curm in 9 5 5 of relapse cases when used n-ith quinine is practically ready for commercial production.
7 ~ O \ . E \ I B E E 19. Roy 9.Bradt, president American R-ashcr and Ironer Manufacturers Sssociation, says record production of Rashing machines is due in part, a t least to substitution of aluminun1 for hard-to-get steel.--Rayomer, Inc., adds to its holdings more than 2,000,000,000 ft. of timber in Far Jl‘est, including 000 three pulp mills. Company officials say new ~ ~ , ~ 0 0 , n-ood naval stores plant of Kewport Industries, Inc., a t Oakdale, La., is rapidly approaching capacity production.N-hluminui~i Oregon Co. announces plans for a $750,000 plant for manufacture of fluoride chemicals in East St. Louis, Ill. T SOVEJIBER 20. James J. Sewman, vice president B. F. G o d rich Co., says AAniericansynthetic rubber plants have more than paid for themselves.-WLeighton R. Smith, research chenikt Lever Brothers, and Charles E. Ruby, Boston attorney and chemical engineer, file suit in U. S. Court of Claims for $6,000,000 from C . S. for alleged government use of their patented processes to render wool shrink-resistant!, --American Cyanamid announces 6
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new insecticide said to be 5 to 2.5 times nmre effective than DDT.
7 SOVEMIBER 21. Reynolds Metals protests reductions in I;. S. tariff on ram aluminum and its fabricated products. 7 XOTEYBER23. Linde Air Products Co. announces it \vi11 soon begin canstruction of $200,000plant for oxygen and acetylene production near Woodrow, Ark. --House of Representatives Select Committee on Foreign Aid points out that European nations should pay at least in part for American help by giving U.S. access to rich iron deposits in Labrador, oil holdings in Venezuela, and chrome and nickel deposits in New Caledonia. SOTEMBER 24. Commerce Department says newsprint is onlj- paper expected t o be in short supply in the spring.--Re\-ked report of American Petroleum Institute shou-s Esst Coast of Agriculture oil situation has deteriorat,ed.N-Departnient recommends extension of government export controls on nitrogen and other fertilizer materials, pigments, paints, and varnishes, soap and allied products, and basic industrial chemicals for two years beyond Feb. 29, 1948.--Representative Dan-son says prospects are favorable for purchase of Salt Lake City Kalunite plant by American Potash and Chemical C0.m-B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co. announces plans for construction of new nianufacturing unit t o produce insecticide materials in its chemical plant in .%kron.
5 SOTEMBER 26. Military tribunal in trial of I. G. Farbenindustrie csecutives admits to evidence mass of documents placing on individual defendants ultimate responsibility for manufacture of cyclone B gas used to exterminate niillions of concentration camp inmates.-WhEC investigates reports that a mining company owned by Gene Tunney and others has found rich uranium deposits in Northvestern Canada; British Columbia provincial government officials confirm such discoveries. a: SOVEMBER 27. Stevens 11.Spencer, associate editor Saturday Ecening Post and George A. Iieaney, N. 17. W o r l d Telegram feature writer, win George Westinghouse science mitirig awards i n annual competition of American Bssociat,ion for Advancement of Science. --Davison Chemical Corp. buys silica gel plant constructed by Government during war for corporation at Curtis Bay, Baltimore, Md.---B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co. announces plans for installation of new nianufacturing unit for production in quantity of agricultural spray material, GoodRite p.e.p.s. (polyethylene polysulfide).
5 SOTEMBER 28. Office of International Trade increastsh tlollar limits of some industrial pigments for shipment undw general l i c e i w procedure. --Food and Drug hdniiriist,ration reports nationwide shortage of penicillin. -D. E. Lilienthal, cliairinan .iEC, addressing Sational Conferencc of American Education Fellowship in Chicago, urges educators to provide leadcrship i n nationnide program of self-education in “the basic facts and t h e essential meaning of atomic energy” lest clemocracy perish.
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e- XOVELIBER 29. E. I,. Bortz, president .lniericaii SIcdicd As>(riation, speaking at 3Iiddle States Xssociation of Col1egi.s and Secondary Schools meeting i n Xtlantic City, say3 basis of modern ticfense program is greater training in scicsnce and ~.r~oniniends rraiiiing miall groups of highly skilled techiiici:rii.: for national deicnse. SOWIIBER 30. .Snierican Section, Societ?. iui’ Cliciiiictil Industry, announces selection of Clarence IT’. Balke, pionccr n.oi:ker iri rare metals, to receive 1948 Perkin IIedal. --&my J. h k e r ’ s Pernmnente 1Ietals Corp. is successful bidder for first German reparations plant to be offered U. S. industry; aluminum foil plant will be brought here from Teningen Baden7.---Reader poll conducted by Chemical Bulktin, publication of Chicago Section ACS, selects “ten ablest chrniists and iaheniical engineers” now working in the U.S. i n each of 20 spcthlizril ticslds. 1
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