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T H E JOURrVAL OF I X D U S T R I A L A N D ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
Exports of aniline dyes from the United States for the six months ending in June 1920 totaled $10,855,959, the totals per month being as follows:
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January. February.. March,. April.. May.. June.
Dollars
9 17,574 ................1,850,662 .................. 2,648,401 ................. 1,829,77 1 .................... 2,120,606
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2.389,5 15
T h e following table shows the distribution of dyes by countries f ~ the r months of May and June: MAY
Japan., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $625,607 109,503 China..
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Mexico... ... ... .. ... .. . .. ... .. ... ..
British I n d i a . . Canada.. France.. Italy Spain.. ................. England.. Argentina.. Brazil. ..................
124.828 133;155 193,211 112,375 72,020 155,293 136,659 124,571 5 1,492
JUNS
$680,215 622,345 4.229 199;036 134,705 188,731 40,803 110.340 128,353 38,893 43,840
One man was killed and several others injured by a fire which destroyed the percolating building of the Toledo Seed & Oil Company recently. The damage is estimated a t $50,000. The first factory for the manufacture of sulfuric acid in Uruguay has been established by the Instituto de Quimica Industrial a t Capurro. and has alreadv commenced production a t the rate of 3 , 5 0 0 kilograms daily. -Nitric, hydrochloric, and other acids are to be manufactured later. The Stellar Company of Minnesota, organized t o extract turpentine from pine stumps, is ready for operation. The plant is to run night and day and shipment of turpentine, creosote. pine oil, rosin oil, boiled tar, and charcoal is to begin a t once. Three or four carloads of Norway pine will be used each week.
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The creation of an All-India Chemical Service with a central research institute a t Dehra Dun and laboratories in each province has been recommended by a committee presided over by Professor J. F. Thorpe of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. The object is to assist by scientific investigation in overcoming the difficulties and deficiencies in Indian industrial organization. It is intended that the research .staffs shall be composed mainly of Indians, so far as those with adequate training are available. A gas obtained from the destructive distillation of straw is being produced on a small scale a t the experimental farm of the U. S. Department of Agriculture a t Arlington, Va. The g,as has been used for motor fuel, and for illuminating and cooking purposes, but its commercial value has not been determined. Fifty pounds of straw will produce about 300 cu. f t . of gas, and the Office of Development Work is working on the problem of liquefying or condensing the gas to enable i t to be used practically as a motor fuel. Several valuable by-products are obtained in the process of manufacture. About 1o6,ooo tons of fuller’s earth valued a t $z,ooo,ooo were produced in the United States in 1919. These figures show an increase of 217 per cent in quantity and of 563 per cent in value in I O years, being an increase of 25 per cent in quantity and 74 Per cent in value Over 1918. Florida Produced nearly nine-tenths of the 1919 output. The mica mine a t Blue Mountain, Stony Lake, Canada, has been purchased by American engineers who expect to start operations immediately, shipping IOO lbs. of mica a day. Except for 6,000 tons of government guano per annum and a small supply of bone manure, the Union of South Africa is entirely dependent on foreign sources for artificial fertilizers. The total imports of manures and fertilizers in 1919 amounted to 12,617 tons.
PERSONAL NOTES Mr. George A. Brewster, an active member of the AMERICAN Mr. Thonvald A. Carlson has completed his work in conCHEMICAL SOCIETY,the American Steel Treaters Society and nection with his Metallurgical Research Fellowship in the Dethe American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, partment of Metallurgical Research, University of Utah, and died August 17, 1920. Mr. Brewster was born in 1877, was is now in the testing department of the Anaconda Copper Mineducated a t Ohio Northern University and held various posi- ing Co., Anaconda, Mont. tions in connection with the chemical industry, his last connecMr. G. E. Daibey has resigned his position as superintendent tion being with the American Radiator Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., of the smelting plant of Benj. Harris & Co., Chicago, Ill., and as chief chemist. is now with the Eastern Brass & Ingot Corporation of New Mr. John A. Dawson, one of the charter members of the York, Waterbury, Conn. California Section of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY and one Mr. C. E. Vail has resigned his position as chemist with the of the oldest chemists on the Coast, died recently. Mr. Empire Refineries, Inc., Okmulgee, Okla., and is now assistant Dawson was educated as a pharmaceutical chemist, and chemist on the staff of the Colorado Experiment Station, Fort early in life became connected with the U. S. Customs House Collins, Col. in San Francisco as examining chemist for foreign imports, Mr. R. T. Haslam has left the National Carbon Company, serving in this capacity for thirty years. Cleveland, Ohio, to become director of the School of Chemical Dr. Harmon N, Morse, professor of chemistry and director Engineering Practice of the Massachusetts Institute of Technolof the chemical laboratory a t Johns Hopkins University, died ogy, Cambridge, Mass. recently a t his summer home on Chebeague Island, Me. Dr. Dr. Harrison E. Patten, for several years research chemist Morse was born in Cambridge, Vt., in 1848. After his gradua- with the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, tion from Amherst College in 1873 he studied a t the University D. C., has accepted the position of chief chemist of Gottingen and returned to Amherst as an assistant in chem- Washington, the phosphate plant of the Provident Chemical Works, St. istry in 1875. He went to Johns Hopkins as an associate pro- of Louis, Mo. fessor in 1876. Mr. Lewis C. Slater has resigned as assistant professor of Mr. Russell W. Moore, past president of the Chemists’ Club, industrial and engineeridg chemistry a t Louisiana State Unidied on July 31 a t his home, 44 West 77th St., New York City. versity, and is now chemist for the Bogalusa Paper Co., Inc., Mr. George P. Gray has resigned his position as assistant Bogalusa, La. professor of entomology and chemist, insecticide laboratory, Mr. DeWitt 0. Jones, formerly in charge of the research a t the University of California, to become chief of the Division laboratory of Armour Fertilizer Works, U. S.Yards, Chicago, of Chemistry of the newly established Department of Agri- Ill., has taken a position with the Newport Company, Carrollculture 3f the State of California, Sacramento, Cal. ville, Wis. Mr. Daniel H. Simpson has resigned his position in the physical Mr. Charles H. Breed, until recently metallurgist with the chemistry section of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C., Crown Cork & Seal Co., Baltimore, Md., has joined the staff and is now in the sales division of the Edison Electric Appliance of Daniel M. Luehrs, industrial consulting engineers, CleveCo., Inc., Chicago, Ill. land, Ohio, as consulting metallurgist in charge of the metnllurgical laboratories. Mr. A.. J. Gailey has left the W. L. Cunimings Chemical Co., Lansdowne, Pa., t o accept the position of research chemical Mr. F. L. Righter, for the past year a graduate student in the engineer for the Electrometallurgical Co ., Niagara Falls, chemistry department of Cornel1 University, has joined the N. Y . staff of the research laboratory of the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, hT. Y. Mr. Florian A. Cajori, formerly Captain in the food section of the Sanitary Corps and on duty in Jugo-Slavia with the American Mr. David Jones, holder of an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship Relief Administration, has completed his graduate work a t Yale from London University a t Johns Hopkins University; is at University and accepted a position a s instructor in physiological present with the chemical division of the Eastman Kodak Co ckernistry a t Leland Stanford, Jr., University, in California. Rochester, N . Y .
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Mr. Lester A. Buehler has accepted a position as assistant in the Department of Operative Pharmacy in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Kenneth A. Brownell, formerly assistant chemist for the Sayles Finishing Plants a t Saylesville, R. I., has accepted a position as chemist for the Standard Bleaching Co , of Carlton Hill, N. J. Mr. J. D. Brown has left the Johnson City High School, Johnson City, Tenn., to become supervisor of the aniline department of the Union .Dye & Chemical Corporation, Kingsport, Tenn. Mr. E. M. Heumann, until recently connected with the Crown Cork & Seal Co., Baltimore, Md., is in charge of the chemical laboratories of Daniel M. Luehrs, industrial consulting engineers, Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. J. B. Ferguson has left the research laboratories of the Western Electric Co. of New York City to accept an appointment as associate professor of research chemistry a t the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Mr. Arthur Bridge, for eight years chemist for the Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah, Ga., has accepted a position with the Newport Chemical Co., Carrollville, Wis , where he is engaged in the manufacture of coal-tar dyes. Mr. Floyd K. Thayer has accepted a position as organic research chemist for the Abbot Laboratories, Chicago, Ill. Mr. Lester Yoder, formerly assistant chemist in the Iowa State Experiment Station, is now assistant in the research division of Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. Mr. J. R. Ruby, for three years in charge of the rubber research work of the New Jersey Zinc Co., has associated himself with Mr. C. P. Hall a t Akron, Ohio, dealing in pigments and chemicals for the rubber trade. Mr. Wallace F. Super, who received the degree of B S. in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in June 1920, is connected with the Atmospheric Nitrogen Corporation a t Laurel Hill, Long Island, N. Y. Mr. L. E. Elliott, formerly water engineer, Wabash R. R., Decatur, Ill., is a t present employed in a similar capacity with the St. Louis-San Francisco R. R., Springfield, Mo. Mr. B. I. Corson, chemical engineer, has severed his connection as chief chemist with the Durkee Atwood Co., Minneapolis, Minn., and has accepted a position in the research laboratory of Hemingway & Co., Bound Brook, N. J. Mr. Morris A. Pozen has resigned as chief chemist, Health Department, Washington, D. C., to accept a similar position with the Schwarz Laboratories, analytical and consulting chemists, New York City.
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Mr. Ewing C. Scott, having fully recovered from a siege of illness after his discharge from the Army, has accepted a position in the laboratory of the Phelps Dodge Corp., Morenci, Ark. Mr. Zoltan de Horvath resigned from the employ of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., to become chief chemist of the Midland Chemical Co. of Argo, Ill. Mr. Jason L. Russell, formerly chemist with the Swan-Myers Co., Indianapolis, Ind., is now connected with Frederick Stearns & Co., Detroit, Mich., where he has charge of the analytical work. Mr. L. E. Jackson resigned as chemist and chemical engineer with the Ernpire Gas & Fuel Co., Bartlesville, Okla., and has accepted a fellowship with the Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. W. W. Peters, formerly chemist for Dow & Smith, consulting chemical engineers of New York City, has joined the forces of the Beacon Oil Co., Boston, Mass., as assistant chief chemist. Mr. Lewis W. Armstrong has left the Wisconsin Chemical Products Co., Shawano, Wis., where he was chief chemist, and has become superintendent of laboratories of Kimberly-Clark Co., Niagara, Wis. Dr. Walter T. Taggart, for many years professor of organic chemistry a t the University of Pennsylvania, has been elected to succeed Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith as Blanchard Professor of Chemistry a t that institution. Dr. Smith resigned as Provost and Professor of Chemistry last June. Professor Taggart is now the head of the chemical department of the Tiniversity. Dr. Nicholas Kopeloff has left the Sugar Experiment Station, Louisiana State University, and has accepted the position of associate in bacteriology a t the Psychiatric Institute of the New York State Hospitals. He will conduct research on the possible correlation between bacterial infections and mental derangements. Mr. D. C . Leander Sherk, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin: June 1920, is employed as research chemist with the GillicanChipley Co , Inc., New Orleans, 1,a. Mr. Herbert S. Bailey has resigned his position with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., where he has been in charge of research paints, varnishes, lubricating, and heating oils, t o accept a position as assistant chief chemist in charge of research work of the Southern Cotton Oil Co., Savannah, Ga. Mr. Bailey is editor of the Chemists’ Section of the Cotton Oil Press. Mr. Walter R. Kirner, M.S. University of Illinois, is now associated with the synthetic chemistry department of the Eastman Kodak Co.’s research laboratory, Rochester, N. Y .
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