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ENGINEERING
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CHEMISTRY Vol. 28, Consecutive No. 9
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Kansas City as a Manufacturing Center ANY visitors to the ninety-first general meeting of the SOCIETY in Kansas City, April 13 to 17, 1936, will be interested in the city as a manufactur ing center and will want to inspect some of the varied industries which make Kan sas City the leading city of the Southwest. The host city offers a diversity of manu facturing interests that should appeal to a large number of visitors. The city is a leading soap-producing center, a paintmanufacturing center of prominence, and a packing-house center second only to Chicago. Within the Power and Light Building may be found much to interest one. The Lighting Research Institute has many instruments and devices for measuring illumination requirements for the human eye and for the proper scientific lighting of homes. In the same building is one of the nation's few television broadcast ing stations. Visitors are welcome be tween the hours of 9 A. M. and 3 P. M. The two airports offer some interesting views. Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kans., is the location of the Department of Commerce Engineering Base, and the Municipal Airport of Kansas City, just five minutes from the shopping district, is probably the most ideally situated of any in the country. Here are located
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the headquarters base for Transcontinen tal & Western Air, Inc., and a division base for United Airlines. It is the focus point for many transcontinental airlines. Kansas City, by air, is only six hours and twenty minutes from New York, nine and one-half hours from Los Angeles, and two hours and twenty minutes from Chicago. Ranking first among American cities as a primary winter wheat market, hay market, distributor of agricultural imple ments, and manufacturer of poultry, stock, and dairy feeds, and second as a meat packing center, Kansas City truly repre sents the great agricultural Southwest which it serves. Among the other industries to be found in Kansas City are clay plants where clay tile, pipe, and building materials are manufactured, rolling mills, automo bile assembly plants, flour mills, and many smaller industrial plants. Inspection trips t o many of these industries will be made on Friday, April 17. Kansas City is truly the Heart of America. I t is readily accessible from any part of the country, and is connected by twelve truck lines and thirty-five sub sidiary lines with all of the principal cities of the United States. I t is served by transcontinental airlines and is the center
of a web of excellent highways extending to all corners of the Nation. Kansas City invites you to attend the meeting. General M e e t i n g Papers HERE will be three outstanding ad dresses on the general program. F. C. Whitmore, Dean of Chemistry and Physics, Pennsylvania State College, will discuss the present and future of organic chemistry in America; Hugh S. Taylor, chairman of the Department of Chem istry, Princeton University, physical chemistry in retrospect and prospect; while Ernest B. Benger, assistant chemical director, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., will present a general technical and economic discussion of the rayon industry. This will be fully illustrated. The public meeting will be featured by a lecture on "Recent Developments in the Glass In dustry'' with illustrations and demon strations by J. C. Hostetter and A. E. Marshall of the Corning Glass Works. These added attractions will bring to the meeting a largo and representative at tendance of members of the AMERICAN
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Golden Jubilee of A l u m i n u m ROBLEMS involved in the developP ment of aluminum from the rare metal it was fifty years ago to the universal servant of mankind it is today closely parallel those in every similar development, according t o Arthur Vining Davis, chairman of the board of the Aluminum Company of America and early associate of Charles Martin Hall, speaking before a gathering at the Waldorf-Astoria on February 17 to celebrate the golden jubilee of the light metal, held under the joint auspices of the Electrochemical Society and the Aluminum Company of America. "All developments of the kind," Mr. Davis continued, "divide themselves into four eras or epochs, each characterized by the question uppermost in the minds of the developers. Ours were: (1) Can we make aluminum? and this we were able to answer in the affirmative as soon as our production reached 30 pounds per day. (2) What can w e do with what we have made? which became an early problem as our output, small as it was, piled up on our hands and was answered by making novelties of it. (3) Can we make any money on it? which was finally answered by our going into the business of doing our own fabricating. (4) How can we make the business grow? which still keeps us searching actively for new markets through research, despite the fact that our present production is in the neighborhood of 300,000,000 pounds per year." Present at the meeting as guests of honor were seven of the fifteen living Perkin Medalists: F. M. Becket, C. F. Burgess, F. G. Cot troll, George O. Curme, Jr., Colin G. Fink, E. C. Sullivan, and M. C. Whitaker. James H. Critchett, president of the Electrochemical Society, turned the meeting over to F. C. Frary, director of research of the Aluminum Company of America, who acted as toastmaster and who traced the early history of Hall's development of the electrolytical iroduction of aluminum «n an anhydrous îath. The other speakers were H. H. Johnson, a classmate of Hall's at Oberlin College and a lifelong friend of the inventor; F. M. Becket, of the Electrometallurgical Corp., who spoke on fifty years of research; and Alexander Klemin, of the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, who emphasized the importance of aluminum and its alloys in modern transportation through the air. The occasion marked
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the fiftieth anniversary of Hall's first successful experiments and the twentyfifth of his designation as Perkin Medalist in 1911. Distinguished Representatives of George Washington University
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N THE University Hatchet, the publication of George Washington University, for February 4, 1936, there is a review and analysis of the former students of George Washington who, to the number of 521, are found listed in the most recent editions of Who's Who in America, American Men of Science, and Leaders in Education. While it is apparent that the compiler of this list was not particularly interested in science, nevertheless most recognition has been gained in that field, 262 ex-students appearing in American Men of Science. The representatives are found in more than a score of sciences, and nearly 80 former students now living have distinguished themselves in the field of chemistry. The analysis does not go on to discuss the distinctions enjoyed by members of the faculty, but it is well to note that during the time when these students were being trained, the faculty of law included such names as Harlan, Brewer, and Strong, and that Walter Reed was connected with the school of medicine. Small wonder that the chemists led the group of distinguished ex-students, for in the chemical facultv were to be found F. W. Clarke, H. W. Wiley, H. C. Bolton, E. A. de Schweinitz, and Charles E. Munroe.
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A special headquarters suite will be set aside for women in the new Municipal Auditorium. Information regarding the meeting may be obtained from the Kansas City committee members—Elvira Weeks, Kathryn Tissue, and Gladys Swope at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. R o u n d - U p o f Texas Long-Horns HIS is the way J. R. Bailey of the UniT versity of Texas refers to his successful efforts in forwarding t o the Secretary of the SOCIETY in one lot 45 applications for membership in the AMERICAN CHEMI-
CAL SOCIETY from professional qualified individuals, chiefly graduates or instructors of his own department. There are strays all over the country that need professional contacts, professional encouragement, and professional development. Why not help to round up those that carry your brand and bring them into green pastures? Heads of chemical departments please note.
Broadcasts of Northeastern Section Γ Γ^ΗΕ broadcasts of the Northeastern Sec.1 tion for the month of March are as follows : March 6 William F. Talbot, G. J. Esselen Laboratories, "A Mile of Pic tures a Minute. Part 1." March 13 William F. Talbot, "A Mile of Pictures a Minute. Part 2." March 20 Samuel C Prescott, Massachu setts Institute of Technology, "Application of Microbiology Women Chemists to Chemistry." HE women chemists' dinner at the March 27 Paul O. Huntington, Merrimac Kansas City meeting will be held Chemical Co., "Solid Carbon Tuesday evening, April 14, at 5:45 P. M. Dioxide." sharp, at the Business and Professional Copies of the talks may be obtained at Women's Club, 1008 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo. The early hour is necessary as seven cents each from John A. Seaverns, the general entertainment is to be given 99 Broad St., Boston, Mass. that evening. The dinner will commemorate the awarding of the Nobel Prize to M. and Mme. Joliot-Curie. Chemical Abstracts Subject H. P. Cady, chairman of the Department Index of Chemistry of the University of Kansas, will discuss radioactivity, illustrating his HE subject index to Chemical Abstracts remarks by the use of an atomophone, for the year 1935 was mailed February under the title "These Wonderful Days." 25 to all subscribers.
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