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Demands of synthesis rubber plants have created critical alcohol situation for 1944. Only full use facilities canmeet needs. M i l i t a r y a n d essential civilian r e q u i r e m e n t s for alcohol in 1944 will necessitate full usage of all alcohol facilities, including those formerly d e v o t e d to beverage alcohol, D o n ald M . Nelson, C h a i r m a n of the W a r P r o d u c tion B o a r d , a n n o u n c e d J a n . 26, following consideration b y t h e full board of W P B of a c o m p l e t e report on t h e industrial alcohol situation. M r . Nelson said t h a t industrial alcohol h a s become t i g h t e r owing to d e m a n d from t h e synthetic rubber plants. G o v e r n m e n t stocks of i n d u s t r i a l alcohol d r o p p e d from a peak of 138,000,000 gallons as of last J u l y to a p p r o x i m a t e l y 80,000,OCX) gallons a t the e n d of 1943, and will d r o p further to 41,000,000 at t h e e n d of 1944. Since a b o u t 30,000,000 gallons are r e g a r d e d as t h e m i n i m u m necessary "working i n v e n t o r y " a t synthetic rubber plants, arsenals, powder p l a n t s , a n d t a n k p o r t terminals for L e n d Lease s h i p m e n t , p r e s e n t r e s e r v e s c a n n o t safely be allowed to decline m u c h further. MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF 190-PROOF ALCOHOL

Requirements Supplies Government stocks at end of year

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M r . Nelson s a i d : To meet the goals in 1944 will require full usage of all facilities for industrial alcohol production, including beverage alcohol plants. The steps which are being taken to ensure availability of alcohol for all essential war purposes include: 1. Attempting to secure suitable and sufficient raw materials for alcohol-producing plants, notably molasses from the Caribbean for the Gulf Coast and East Coast industrial plants and corn for the grain alcohol plants. 2. Expediting the completion of new grain alcohol plants which are now under construction. 3. Securing maximum production from present facilities by means other than those listed in 1. 4. Having the British resume the production of alcohol, using Caribbean molasses which would be shipped in place of the present Lend-Lease industrial alcohol commitments to Britain for war production. 5. Attempting to secure imports of alcohol from the Caribbean if it proves impracticable to obtain proper amounts of blackstrap molasses because of its consumption in new Caribbean distilleries. 6. Tightening the allocation of alcohol. 7. Preparing against the contingency of grain shortages in the United States in 1945 by developing suitable projects to produce alcohol from nongrain materials such as petroleum gases and wood wastes or from Canadian wheat supplies or projects to produce from other sources certain materials which now require alcohol. . I t is anticipated that the alcohol situation will remain tight as long as the rubber program needs ail-out production from the plants which make butadiene from alcohol. These plants are expected t o operate at a t least 150% of rated capacity during much of 1944, T h e most recent Careful control and planning of the alcohol program must be continued to insure against a potentially critical situation ahead.

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estimates of the Rubber Director call for 50% more alcohol in the first half of 1944 than had been envisaged in the original program.

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M o r e t h a n a m o n t h ago t h e D e f e a s e S u p plies C o r p . a g r e e d to p u r c h a s e 8 0 0 , 0 0 0 t o n s of i n v e r t molasses from C u b a , b u t negotiations were discontinued because of illness of the c h a i r m a n of t h e L a t i n - A m e r i c a n g r o u p . N e gotiations were resumed in H a v a n a J a n . 31.

Reorganization of A . A . T . C C . Research Structure T h e most i m p o r t a n t a c t i o n t a k e n by the Council of t h e A m e r i c a n Association of T e x t i l e C h e m i s t s a n d C o l o r i s t s d u r i n g its meeting on J a n . 21 was t h e acceptance of t h e report r e n d e r e d b y a special c o m m i t t e e headed b y L e o n a r d S. L i t t l e on the reorganization of t h e association's research o p e r a t i o n s . O t h e r m e m b e r s of t h e c o m m i t t e e a r e J . R . B o n n a r , William D . A p p e l , T h o m a s R . S m i t h , P . J . Wood, a n d L. A . Olney. F o r 22 y e a r s the A . A . T . C C . h a s carried o u t an a m b i t i o u s p r o g r a m of r e s e a r c h aimed a t the e s t a b l i s h m e n t in t h i s c o u n t r y of textile q u a l i t y s t a n d a r d s a n d testing m e t h o d s . T h e special c o m m i t t e e w a s c h a r g e d with the a s s i g n m e n t of m o d e r n i z i n g t h e association's research s t r u c t u r e w i t h t h e i n t e n t of intensifying its w o r k , of relieving D r . Olney, w h o will soon r e t i r e from t h e chair of Textile C h e m i s t r y at t h e Lowell T e x t i l e I n s t i t u t e , from a d m i n i s t r a t i v e d u t i e s , a n d o f supplem e n t i n g a n d assisting t h e v o l u n t e e r comm i t t e e s with a staff of paid l a b o r a t o r y technicians. It p r o p o s e d t h a t a p e r m a n e n t E x e c u t i v e C o m m i t t e e on R e s e a r c h be a p p o i n t e d t o establish t h e general research policy of t h e association, a n d t o organize a n d o p e r a t e all t h e professional facilities which a r e t o be set u p . A c o m p e t e n t d i r e c t o r of research will b e engaged; assisting him will be t h e p r e s e n t associate d i r e c t o r , Bertil R y b e r g , a n d a s n e w a p p o i n t e e s an. assistant research associate, t w o l a b o r a t o r y a s s i s t a n t s , a n d a clerk or research s e c r e t a r y . T o finance t h e e n t i r e p r o g r a m a b u d g e t of $35,000 per a n n u m was approved.

Stevens Research Foundation T h e S t e v e n s I n s t i t u t e of T e c h n o l o g y , H o b o k e n , N . J., h a s o r g a n i z e d t h e S t e v e n s R e s e a r c h F o u n d a t i o n to c a r r y o n scientific a n d i n d u s t r i a l r e s e a r c h i n c o o p e r a t i o n with t h e institute. President D a v i s declared that i t is a n o u t g r o w t h of t h e e x t e n s i v e p r o g r a m of research w h i c h S t e v e n s h a s c a r r i e d on d u r i n g recent y e a r s .

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Albert L. Elder d i r e c t o r of research of t h e C o r n Refining C o . , C h i c a g o .

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McManus Resigns from WPB William J . M c M a n u s h a s resigned h i s position as chief of t h e d r u g a n d penicillin facilities u n i t , C h e m i c a l s Division, W P B , t o become chief engineer for W y e t h , I n c . , where h e will be a c t i v e in t h e production of penicillin.

Petroleum Survey A f o u r - y e a r s t u d y of t h e behavior of p e t r o leum i n i t s original reservoirs h a s been c o m pleted b y engineers of S t a n d a r d Oil C o . ( N . J.) a n d i t s affiliate, t h e H u m b l e Oil a n d Refining C o . T h e s u r v e y correlates e x h a u s tive l a b o r a t o r y research w i t h actual field e x perience on t w o c o n t i n e n t s . Pools with widely v a r y i n g geological characteristics and o p e r a t ing c o n d i t i o n s were s t u d i e d in O k l a h o m a , Louisiana, A r k a n s a s , a n d T e x a s , as well a s Venezuela, C o l o m b i a , P e r u , a n d A r g e n t i n a . One of t h e m o s t significant conclusions is t h a t t h e r a t e a t w h i c h oil i s w i t h d r a w n from i t s u n d e r g r o u n d s t o r e h o u s e has an i m p o r t a n t b e a r i n g on t h e p r o b a b l e u l t i m a t e recovery from a p a r t i c u l a r field. Careful control of well p r e s s u r e a n d o t h e r o p e r a t i n g factors i s a n o t h e r " m u s t " if recoverable oil is n o t t o b e left b e h i n d in t h e g r o u n d . O n t h e o t h e r h a n d , t h e n u m b e r of wells or t h e distance b e t w e e n t h e m h a s little p r a c t i c a l effect on t h e t o t a l a m o u n t of oil t h a t could be b r o u g h t t o t h e surface, p r o v i d e d the r a t e of w i t h d r a w a l is properly controlled. Thi^ee t y p e s of u n d e r g r o u n d energy were studied.. T h e engineers f o u n d t h a t only 20 t o 40^*3 recovery of t h e oil i n t h e g r o u n d could b e o b t a i n e d t h r o u g h t h e u s e of dissolved g a s d r i v e a l o n e . G a s - c a p d r i v e is 50 t o 1 0 0 % m o r e efficient t h a n t h e dissolved g a s drive» I n m o s t fields from 6 0 t o 8 0 % of t h e oil i n place can b e recovered t h r o u g h t h e p r o p e r use of w a t e r drive.

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INDUSTRIAL NEWS Barton Retires George Estes Barton has retired as chief chemist emeritus of the Wliitail Tatum Division Plant, Armstrong Cork Co., Millville, N. J., after nearly a half century of service to the glass industry. He was given a

By Ed Rosendahl ABRASIVE: W H E E L S can be molded prior to firing by the use of a binder called DIGLYCOL S T E A R A T E S. This acts as a tempo­ rary binder enabling the wheel to b e molded without crumbling, but com­ pletely volatilizes on firing.

American-Made Synthetic Rubber Synthetic rubber produced in the United States is superior to that made in Germany, and, in many respects, excels even natural rubber which is now largely under the control of Japan. These facts, together with the prediction that the return of natural rubber following the war will not impede progress of synthetic, were brought out by R. K. Bitter, technical service engineer of the Hycar Chemical Co., in a talk before the Convention of Science Teachers at Grand Rapidsj Mich.

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Fifteen aluminum production lines in the East and South, where power is generated from coal, have been shut down by WPB, curtailing 14% of the Nation's production of aluminum. The last three closed down were at Massena, Ν. Υ., two owned by Alcoa and one by the Government. Prior to the cut­ backs W P B reported production running more than 40,000,000 pounds a month ahead of consumption.

-ENTERIC COATINGS, eonlisting of edible synthetic base called M O N O S T E A R I N , are now replacing shellac which is often used ?or this purpose/ - M O N O S T E A R I N is i n ­ soluble in water, bot readily emulsifies i n contact with alkalies. ~ 2 ^ H S L I A P H A M T E / ' cellulose •acetate, and other synthetic materials •of a similar nature readily hold together when the adhesive contains A Q U A RESIN G B . This adds greater strength, 'flexibility and adhesiveness to the glue. ^ C A S E I N , gîue, gelatin, shellac, «and similar products may be readily defoamed by adding F O A M E X to •the w a t er -solution. F O A M E X can be added •either to the water before making the •solution or to the finished solution. FOAMEX will not interfere with the other •properties of the products.

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Since Pearl Harbor subsidiaries of the U. S. Steel Corp. have produced 60,000,000 tons of steel, breaking more than 2,000 pro­ duction records.

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INDUSTRIAL NEWS Millionth Gear This Year On December 30, 1943, the employees of Foote Bros. Gear & Machine Corp., Chicago, 111., reached their goal of 1,000,000 high pre­ cision aircraft gears produced in 1943, a n increase of 53.3% over 1942 production. A t a short and simple ceremony the millionth gear was presented to the executives of the company by Miss Lois Rodman, gear inspec­ tor.

Raw Material Stockpile A postwar stockpile of key raw materials, now under consideration b y the State De­ partment, is being urged as a safeguard against another war, as a means for at least token repayment of Lend-Lease, as a balance against the large American export program that is in prospect for reconstruction, and a s a means of utilizing the surplus of merchant ships at the close of the war. The stockpile might include; Petroleum, S300.000.000 Manganese, §50,000,000 to §100,000,000 Chromium, $25,000,000 Nonferrous metals, $50,000,000 Precious metals and rttre minerals, $2S,000,000 Industrial diamonds $25,000,000 Fibers and crude rubber, $2 5,000,000 Chemicals and drugs, S 10,000,000 Fats and oils, $15,000,000 Iron ore and lumber

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Postwar Pbrnnins Survey Answering the need for a specific analysis of postwar preparation activities b y indus­ tries, showing sales, marketing, distribution and new product plans, t&e Research D e ­ partment of The Curtis Publishing Co., Philadelphia, has completed a survey b e ­ hind the scenes of 350 major companies, i n ­ cluding 18 in the chemicals and paint industry. The study deals primarily with durable goods m.anufa.ctur*era, because they have made the greatest conversion, to war and face the greatest reconversion problem in the days ahead. T h e companies included in the study were selected on the basis of their size and thoir importance. Among these 350 manufacturers 7S% have increased their number of employ jess since 1939; 34% have doubled the nuz&ber. T h e greatest increases have occurred im. the automotive, aviation, machinery, radio, and rubber industries. Sixty % of the companies have a company postwar planning organization. Among the other 40% soiaae said ttiat post­ war planning is part of t h e day-to-day think­ ing of top management ai&d others said they had a planning and development division as part of the permanent organization.

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L. P . McAllister, metallurgical engineer for Lukens Steel Co. since 1936, has been ap­ pointed Assistant to the general superintend­ ent with specific duties of quality control, Joseph G. Althouse metallurgical engineer, and William Taylor engineer of tests, suc­ ceeding Mr. Althouse. Mr. McAllister has

Postwar Planning A series of five guides to postwar planning are being issued by the National Associa­ tion of Manufacturers, 14 West 49th St.. New York 20, Ν. Υ. "Guide to Postwar Sales Planning" and "Guide to Internal Organization for Corporation Postwar Plan­ ning" have already been issued, and the others will appear shortly: "Guide to Post­ war Product Development", "Guide to Cost Study in Corporation Postwar Plan­ ning", and "Guide to Postwar Corporate Financial Planning". The Brookings Institution, Washington 6, D. C , has issued "Postwar Tax Policy and Business Expansion", a 46-page booklet by Lewis H. Kimmel, sold at 50 cents a copy. This is one of a group of investigations of postwar problems now being studied by the institute -

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been with Lukens since 1922, following gradu­ ation from Brown University. Mr. Althouse has been engineer of tests since Nov. 1935. He first came to the company in July 1917. Mr. Taylor entered the employ of Lukens as an apprentice metal­ lurgist in 1936.

A r m y - N a v y " E " Awards The Navy Board for Production Awards has granted a third star to be added to the Army-Navy " E " pennant of the Barbcrton plant of Babcock and Wilcox Co., in recogni­ tion of its continued excellence in production. The War Department has awarded a star to be added to the Army-Navy " E " pennant of F. W. Berk & Co., Wood Ridge, N. J., Delegates of the Federation of Paint and Varnish Clubs to the Inter-Society Color Council are: William A. Lutz, B. J. Mayo. Elmer Schuler, F. W. Weber, L. A. Wetlaufer, Ed Miller, J. A. Meacham, and Francis Scofield, chairman.

Called one of the most important techni­ cal achievements of the war by the WPB, the manufacture of magnesium under high vac­ uum has greatly increased production during the past year. Applied to penicillin, a highvacuum diffusion process is speeding Amer­ ica's output, with signs pointing to a suf­ ficient supply for the armed services and civilians alike by spring. Plans now in the making call for high-vacuum applications to several other war-important industries. Although high vacuum has been used be­ fore on a limited scale in the manufacture of vitamins and electronic tubes, it has never been applied industrially to the extent that is now possible, with entire factories placed under air pressures 100,000 times less than normal pressure. When this is done, chemi­ cal and physical reactions unheard of at normal pressures become industrial realities. Industrial vacuum diffusion purnps with enormous capacities for exhausting air and other gases must be used to maintain such extremely low air pressures throughout the thousands of feet of pipes, valves, retorts, and condensers that are used in a magnesium plant. National Research Corp., plants of the Ford Motor Co., and the New England Lime Co. are now in production with mag­ nesium and most of the largest penicillin manufacturers have adopted the vacuum dif­ fusion process for dehydrating this drug. Under WPB sponsorship several large operators undertook to produce magnesium by the thermal reduction of dolomite with ferrosilicon. The whole success of this pro­ gram hinged on the use of extremely low pressures on a scale never before obtained. Early experimental work was undertaken by National Research, and on the basis of that performance the Defense Plant Corp. awarded the company a contract t o build a pilot plant for magnesium production under high vacuum. I n the record-breaking time of four and a half weeks, t h e plant produced its first run, and the resulting metal was ac­ claimed by government officials as "the best seen to date".

Chlorine Institute The Chlorine Institute, Inc., held its annual meeting and directors' meetings Jan. 26, in New York. Officers for 1944 are: S. W. Jacobs, president; E. C Speiden, vice presi­ dent; Robert T. Baldwin, secretary and treasurer. Directors: George M. Dunning, F. W. Fraley, Jr., R. W. Hooker, S. W. Jacobs, E. C. Speiden, Thomas Coyle, W. I. Galliher, Louis Neuberg, E. E . Routh, B. P. Steele, and Eli Winkler.

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Chemical Industry In Bond Drive Representatives of chemical industry in N e w York, planning all-out drive within the industry, for sale of Fourth War Loan Bonds. Left to right. Ε. Η . Anchors, W . R. Burgess, state chairman, C. S. Munson, divisional chairman, and W . E. Cetter.

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