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Fathers and Sons in American Chemistry The Cam© Triumvirate E PRESENT today, in our series of W Fathers and Sons in American Chemistry, Charles William Cuno and his two sons, Charles and Robert. All three are active in the St. Louis Section of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY and factors
in the chemical activity of the St. Louis area.
CHARLES
NEVA
CUNO
was
born
in
Denver in 1904, received tus education in the schools of Denver, Yankton, S. Dak., and Webster Groves, Mo. After freelancing in various positions with steel works, powder mills, electric manufacturing, etc., he elected the chemical and metallurgical field, entered Washington University Extension School, and finished his chemical education in the laboratory under the direction of his father. He is now chief chemist and metallurgist of the Carondelet Foundry, St. Louis. ROBERT
EUGENE
CUNO was
born in
Denver in 1906. His early education was in the same schools as his brother. He studied three years at Washington University, graduating from the University of Colorado in 1929. His first position was in the research laboratory of the Shell Petroleum Co. at Wood River, 111. He then became assistant chemist at the Mississippi Valley Research Laboratories, St. Louis, and is at present chief chemist for the Grove Laboratories, St. Louis. In 1933, feeling the need of additional education for t h e position he now holds, he entered the S t . Louis School of Pharmacy, from which institution he expects to receive the degree of Ph.G. this year.
Back Numbers Wanted LEFT TO RIGHT. ROBERT E. CUNO, CHARLES W. CUNO, CHARLES N. CUNO
A native of St. Louis, CHARLES W I L -
LIAM CUNO was taken early in life to Leadville, Colo., where his father was assayer and chemist for the famous Matchless Mine of H. A. W. Tabor fame. H e was initiated into the atmosphere of chemistry at the age of 12, becoming sample bucker, general factotum, and washer of chemical glassware in his father's assay office. From there he drifted gradually into the smelting business, being a t various times ore factor, weighmaster, and assistant yardmaster at the Globe Plant of the American Smelting and Refining Co. In 1911, feeling the need of more education, he and his wife enrolled at the University of Denver, where he had the distinction of graduating with high honors in one year. He received his M.A. degree in 1913 and his Ph.D. in chemistry and education in 1915 from the same institution. His teaching career includes five years at the University of Denver as director of the Department of Efficiency and teacher in the English Department; two years as professor of chemistry and physics, Yankton College, Yankton, S. Dak.; and seven years as professor of industrial and engineering chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis. In 1927 he resigned to enter t h e field of consulting engineering and soon became consulting chemical and metallurgical engineer for the Industrial Bureau of the Industrial Club of St. Louis. Later he became vice president of the Mississippi Valley Research Laboratory and then director of research for Eternit Mills, Division of The Ruberoid Co., St. Louis. His activities as consultant include researches in low-temperature carbonization, surveys of the mineral resources of the St. Louis area, studies in chemical plant location, and research into industrial hazards, such as silicosis, asbestosis, etc.
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Sulfur Industry i n 1935
fur was reported from California, Louisiana, Texas, and Utah. The output of sulfur in Texas in 1935 was 1,253,814 long tons, or 77 per cent of the country's total. These figures compare with a production of 1,187,233 tons in 1934. Production of sulfur was made on two new leases on Boling Dome, Wharton County, in 1935 by the Duval Texas Sulphur Co., and by Baker & Williams. Prizes Awarded Chemical Engineering Students HE American Institute of Chemical Engineers announces that awards T have just been made in the nation-wide contest involving the solution of a problem requiring not only a knowledge of chemistry, chemical engineering, and plant design, but also the economics of manufacturing operations and of plant accounting practices. The problem involved the calculation and interpretation of data obtained in the operation of a pilot plant electric furnace for the production of elemental phosphorus from phosphate rock. The first prize of $100 has been awarded to Henry G. Staaterman, a senior in chemical engineering at Cooper Union, NewYork; the second prize of $50 to Paul A. Mills, a senior at Ohio State University; the third prize of $25 to John H. Johnsen, Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, 111. Honorable mention is made of Walter J. Ewbank, a student at Purdue University, Charles E. Leyes of Cooper Union, and Franics J. McAdam of Columbia University. The American Institute of Chemical Engineers conducts these prize contests annually, those eligible to compete being all chemical engineering undergraduates enrolled in the student chapters of the institute located at 44 institutions of higher learning. The object of the contest is to give the students a conception of the type of practical problem that they will be called upon to solve after graduation. The committee responsible for the conduct of the contest is headed by A. McLaren White, of the University of North Carolina. Foreign D e m a n d for American Chemicals Increases HE foreign demand for American T chemical products continued active during March, particularly for coal-tar dyes, chemical specialties, paint products, fertilizers, and sulfur, according to the Commerce Department's Chemical Division. Total exports of such products were valued at $13,100,000 in March, bringing the total for the first quarter of the year to $36,591,000, an increase of approximately 19 per cent over the first three months of 1935, when chemical exports were valued at $30,850,000.
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o SUPPLY the mineral industry promptly with data on sulfur production and markets during the past year, the following information i s furnished by the United States Bureau of Mines. Production of sulfur i n t h e United States in 1935 amounted t o 1,632,590 long tons, a gain of 15 per cent over the 1,421,473 tons produced i n 1934. Shipments increased slightly from 1,613,838 tons, valued a t about $28,900,000 in 1934, to 1,634,990 tons, valued at about $29,300,000 in 1935. The quantity of sulfur in stock a t the mines on December 31, 1934 (3,100,000 tons) was unchanged at the close of 1935. Production of sul-
VOL. 14. NO. 11
Pharmacopeia
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Corrections
HE Committee of Revision of the Pharmacopeia of the United States of America has issued four typewritten pages of corrections which have been found necessary since the appearance of the newPharmacopeia in December, 1935. Purchasers of the new Pharmacopeia may obtain a printed list of these corrections for insertion in their copies by sending a 3cent stamp to cover postage to the publishers, the Mack Printing Co.," Easton,
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