George M. Allen, formerly in charge of production of the American Viscose Corp., has been appointed head of the Viscose Division. Henry H. Bitler, previously assistant technical director, is now in charge of the AcetateVinyon Division.
ATABRINE FIGHTS BACK HARDER BECAUSE IT IS NUCHAR TREATED ! cal industry the use of Nuchar Active Carbon results in clearer, purer, more marketable products because of its ability to adsorb invisible impurities, by trapping them within its billions of activated particles. Nuchar Active Carbon has found wide acceptance in the purification of many new chemicals for the removal of undesired color, odor and taste as we(l as other impurities that interfere with efficient plant operation.
Atabrine, the new scientific drug to supplant quinine supplies in the treatment of malaria/ is doing a big job in conquering the mosquito-borne malady that kills more of our men in the jungles than any other disease. Active Carbon is helping to produce better Atabrine by adsorbing impurities by phys• ical contact/ during its manufacture, without affecting its chemical components. In the purification processes of the chemi-
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Raymond Charles Bacon has joined the staff of the Bakelite Corp., Research and Development Laboratories, BloomfieId, N . J. Dr. Bacon was formerly employed by the Calco Chemical Division, American Cyanamid Corp. Frederick Baker has become assistant treasurer of the Blaw-Knox Co.. Pittsburgh. Penna. Cyrus S. Ching has resigned as an employer member of the National War Labor Board to return to his position as director of industrial and public relations of U. S. Rubber. Frederic G. Coburn, formerly special assistant to the chairman of the board, has been elected president and a director of the Brown Co., Berlin, N. H. He is the first to be chosen since reorganization of the company late in 1941. William J. Conley, former chairman of the Engineering Department, University of Rochester, has become consulting engineer for the Lincoln Electric Co., Cleveland, Ohio. He will have charge of the company's welding educational activities, and will handle problems on mechanical and structural design as well as metallurgical problems involving welding processes. Arch H . Copeland and John Berdan have been appointed assistant directors of sales of the Diamond Alkali Co., and J. D. Mattern has been appointed manager cf sales covering the company's principal heavy chemical products.
Metal Boxes for carrying small parts. Drying Cabinet for pharmaceuticals, made to accommodate four trucks loaded with trayi.
T A 7HETHER specifications call for simple metal tote boxes or a large drying cabinet like the one illustrated — w e can build to your order practically any metal handling equipment you may recruire — in ths metal, size, strength and design best adapted to the service for which it is intended.
Henry L. Cox, who for several years has been with the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. as assistant superintendent of the South Charleston, W. Va., plant, has joined the staff of the Rubber Reserve Corp.. Washington, D. C , for the duration of the present emergency.
Our plant is large, modern and flexible. Our "reorders" have, for years, come from some of the foremost food and industrial plants in the United States.
O. L. Davis has been appointed purchasing agent of the PEMCO Co., Baltimore, Md.
C a t a l o g CE6 will k e s e n t -to y o u o n request.
W. C. Davis has been appointed assistant director of sales in charge of export and contractors' sections of the Atlas Powder Co. Explosives Department. He has been with the company for 25 years.
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Herbert A. Goodwin, for fifteen years advertising manager of the Continental Can Co., has been appointed director of sales development. L. £. Hammer h a s joined the Worthington Pump and . Maciiinery Corp. as assistant works manager of the Moore Steam Turbine Division, Wellsville, N \ Y. Gorman H. Horton, formerly research chemist with the Swarm Chemical Co., is now employed at the Research Laboratories, Floridin Co., "Warren, Penna.. in the study of organic contact catalysis. Otis W . Hovey Ix&a joined the etafif of the Ailoys Development Corp., New York, as development and design engineer. Hugh Hughes has resigned as director of the War Production Board Commodities Bureau, t o return to his duties with the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. Raymond R. Hull, vice president in charge of production of I. P. Thomas & Son Co., Camden, N . J., i s now deputy chief of the Nitrogen Unit of -the War Production Board. Personnel changea on the staff of the General Foods Corp. central laboratories, Hoboken, N". J., include Harold S . Levenson, former research project leader, -who has been made a division head in -the physical chemistry section. John H . L-otz, formerly assistant professor o f chemical engineering a t the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been appointed research staff project leader in charge of packaging research. Millard O. flicker has left the> Trojan Powder Co., to become project leader in the engineering research seotion.
INVESTIGATE! The 0-D-S Diaphraga Pump for Haedling Slndges and Corrosive SoButions
John H . Long h a s been put in charge of the newly established sales research division of Hercules Powder.
• N o mechanical linkage t o duaphragm • Actuated by air pressure or vacuum • 2?uiiiping force evenly distributed • No center perforation i n the diaphragm • No motor, stuffing box, packing or high speed moving parts • Vahres and diaphragm resistant t c corrosion and abrasion
D. C. Maddy, formerly in the middle western area, has been assigned the Pacific Coast territory, representing the Hycar Chemical Co., with headquarters in Los Angeles. R.. S. Bitter, with headquarters in Akron, will serve the middle western territory. A. portrait of Percy C. Magnus, president of the New York Board of Trade for seven terms, i s to b e presented to the board by the membership. Mr. Magnus is at present chairman of the board. Paul Mayfield, director of sales, Naval Stores Department, Hercules Powder Co., has been appointed assistant general manager. Robert Mehl, h&ad of the Department of Metallurgy, Carnegie Institute of Technology» Allan Bâtes, manager. Chemical and Metallurgical Division, Westinghouse Research Laboratories, and Arthur Phillips, professor of metallurgy, Yale University, have been named by the Government at the request of Brazil, to spend three months lecturing and making field tours through mining areas in Bxazil. Charles R. Meyers has been appointed to supervise the Wholesale Drug Sales Division, Magnus, Mabee &z Reynard, Inc., New York. ECe was formerly assistant sales manager for the William S. Merrell Co., Cincinnati. The Bakélite Corp., Bloom field, N. J., has
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These six features o f the O-D-S (the Oliver Diaphragm Slurry) Pump just about tell the story of why this pump is a hit throughout the process industries. Simple—efficient—reliable; and because of ^ ^ ^ its flexibility i t is frequently used for metering and proV portioning solutions. Several sizes available. Write for otir bulletin 307-R, which gives further details and tell us about your pumping problem.
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announced the following additions to the staff of the. Research and Development Laboratories: Leopoldo Arthur Micco, M.S. in physics, Fordbam College; Henry Tredwell Plant, B.A. in chemistry, Colgate University; Richard A. Oriani, B.Ch.E., College of the City of New York; and Alexander Xogan Wilson, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1943, who has recently been with the Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corp.'s staff a t Mellon Institute. Robert Brace Moffett has been appointed as senior research chemist for George Breon. & Co., Kansas City, Mo. Dr. Moffett was formerly postdoctorate fellow in biochemistry a t Northwestern University. Other additions t o the staff include: Mary Bea Flint, junior chemist; Carroll Moore, chemist; Jane Stickley, junior chemist; Janet Stoltenberg, research chemist; Reola Dorand, bacteriologist; and Silas A. King, control chemist. Curtis L. Moody, factory manager of the Dominion Rubber Co., Ltd., Kitchener, Ontario, subsidiary of U. S. Rubber, has been appointed production manager of the tire division at Detroit. James A.. Daly has been appointed factory manager at Detroit, succeeding George R. McNear, who has been made Pacific Coast sales manager, tire division. Thomas E. Clark is t h e new factory manager of the Fisk plant a t Chieopee Falls, Mass. Sidney C. Moody has been appointed assistant general manager of the Calco Chemical Division, American Cyanamid Co., i n charge of all departments. Mr. Moody h a s been
with -the company since 1919, for many years as de-partment sales manager.
chief engineer i n charge of the engineering division.
E. Clarence Oden has resigned his position as assistant professor of chemical engineering at Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science to accept a position a s chemical engineer i n the research and d e velopment department of Mathieson Alkali's Magnesium Plant, Lake Charles, La.
Fred W. Pennington has been appointed manager of publications and advertising for Kennametal, Inc., Latrobe, Pexxna.
Robert Onan has been appointed sales representative of the Duraloy Co. in the Chicago area. John E. Parsley, chemist in charge of t n e Drug Laboratories, Department of Public Service laboratories, University o f Kentucky, has resigned to become a member of the Research Department, Wyandotte Chemical Corp.. Wyandotte, Mich. The Petroleum Administration for War has appointed James P . Patterson director of transportation, Edward H . Kares director of construction, and Edwin W. Esmay assistant to the director, with headquarters i n New York. Mr. Patterson was formerly manager of terminals and transportation for the Pan American. Petroleum and Transport Co., Mr. Kares has been supervising general engineering with the Standard Oil Development Co., and Mr. Esmay was formerly public relations director of the American Petroleum Institute.
Arthur F. Peterson has been made manager of t h e domestic sales division of the Schering Corp., Bloomfield, N . J., which combines the professional service division and t b e sales division. Jose Polak, Mexican representative for several 17. S. chemical manufacturers and distributors, is making an extensive trip throughout the United States t o call on his principals. Harry G. Porch, manager of sales for L»\ikens Steel since 1900, in the Boston office, retired from active duty on September 1 after 48 years of continuous service. Ralph. N. Prince has accepted a textile fellowship at the Engineering Experiment Station, University of New Hampshire, Durham. He was formerly ^employed by Fort Orange Paper Co., Castleton on Hudson, N. Y. Kurt W. Renson, industrial chemist, has joined the Los Angeles laboratory staff of
Walker Penfield, formerly manager o f engineering of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co., has been made works manager in charge of all the manufacturing activities of the company. Floyd H . Walker, formerly chief engineer of the Swenson Division, isnovr
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John F. Ross baa resigned his position as chief chemist of the J. T . Baker Chemical Co., and has accepted a position w i t h the Chemical Products Division of the General Electric Co. at Nela Park, Cleveland. Ohio.
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R. L . Schlink has been transferred as chemist in charge, Products Control Department, Special Commodities Division, General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, t o be chief chemist, Products Control Department at Keokuk, Iowa. Jules B. Standig, chemical engineer, Niagara Smelting Division, Stauffer Chemical Co., has been transferred to the Neve York office at 4 2 0 Lexington Ave. £. P . Tomiska, deputy director of t b e Containers Division, WPB, has been appointed director, succeeding Roswell G. Mower, v/ho resigned August 28. Charles S . Venable, formerly in cnarge of, the viscose chemical research laboratories of the American Viscose Corp., Marcus Hook, Penna., has been appointed director o f chemioal research for the company. T b e com-
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pany is consolidating all i t s basic research activities a t Marcus Hook. F. William Hoster, formerly in charge of acetate rayon and vinyon research a t Meadville, has become assistant director of chemical research. James D. Veron has been appointed sales manager of the Dried Yeasts and Derivatives Department, Yeast, Malt, and Corn Products Division, Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Veron joined t h e laboratory staff of the company in 1928 as chemist and technical consultant. Edgar O . Warren has been assigned by the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. to the Heavy Chemicals Division to take over the Philadelphia territory, covered \>y Lieutenant E. M. Wilson before h e entered the military service. Mr. Warren was formerly with the General Baking Co. Robert H. 'West, president- of the Esmond Mills, has been appointed chairman of the Committee on Economic Research, Textile Research Institute. Other members are: F. "W. Binzen, Irene L. Blunt, Flint Garrison, A. Ford Hinrichs, L. A. Bird, Luther H. Hodges,/ Stanley B. Hunt, Xt. Colonel Stephen J. Kennedy, H. E. Michl, and Douglas G. "Woolf. T. H. Wickenden has been appointed manager of the Development and Research Division, International Nickel Co., and H . J. French, assistant manager. Mr. Wickenden, who h a s been assistant manager since 1931, succeeds the late Albion J a m e s Wadhams. Mr. French has been in charge of alloy steel development for the company- since 1932, and is now temporarily serving o n the W P B . Jesse W . Wynne has been made regional vice president of the Southwest Division, McKesson 6 Robbins, Inc., succeeding the late B- B. Gilmer, and will have headquarters in Memphis, Tenn. Gavin S. Younkin, liaison engineer for the Brown Instrument Division, MinneapolisHoneywell Regulator Co., o n the west coast, has taken o n additional duties a s manager of the L o s Angeles district office of the San Francisco branch.
Opportunities for Chemists in Government Service The United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C , has recently issued t w o booklets describing the opportunities for chemists in government service. "Opportunities for Chemists in Civilian War Service" is a 28-page booklet -that gives information regarding t h e work o f government chemists, appointment, examinations, the civil service as a career, and a n analysis of chemist jobs in government agencies, with a n appendix that digests educational and experience requirements, duties, and salaries for current announcements of positions open. "Serve in Pederal Scientific War Work" is a folder that urges technically trained men and women to enter -war research. It gives detailed information o n positions in physics, metallurgy, meteorology, geology, radio technology, mathematics, geography, bacteriology, pharmacology, astronomy, and chemistry.
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Metal'Eating Acids Go Hungry with Amsco-Nagle Pumps on the Line No clairvoyant powers are most resistclaimed for Amsco engineers, but a n t to the even had they foreseen every- destructive thing which has happened during f o r c e s enthe past four years, they could not countered on have designed pumps better the specific adapted to current conditions in installation. the chemical process industries. Abroad metIn many such pump applica- a l l u r g i c a l tions, the cost of upkeep i s more background, important than the original cost a n d t h i r t y of the pump. This is especially y e a r s o f true now, when replacement parts pump buildare not only a drain on the na
