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NEWS § FOCUS ψ THIS GIANT "TOOTHPASTE TUBE/' developed by U. S. Rubber, holds nearly 4000 gallons of liquid for shipment by trailer truck. It is filled through the fitting in its lower right corner. It can be rolled up in the end of the trailer when dry cargo is being shipped
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« ^ KOPPERS' OWN FIRE DEPARTMENT and those of a dozen communities near its Kobuta plant, 3 0 miles down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, fight a n $825,000 fire in the ethylbenzene unit. Thefirewas con fined to this unit which occupies only 150 square feet of the 275-acre plant. Koppers believes the fire w a s caused by a rupture of a 6-inch process pipe carrying ethylbenzene at high pressure and temperature high on the unit
COLLISION OF A TRAIN AND A TRUCK
carrying some 15 tons of sodium cyanide pellets near Thamesville, Ont., spilled the poisonous material along 400 yards of the railroad right-of-way. Hasty cleanup operations avoided danger to the town's water supply. Canadian civil defense and army reserve forces supervised, the picking up and burying of the pellets, bulldozing away of surface soil, and spreading of chemicals for counteracting the poison. Chemical companies from the Detroit and Niagara Falls areas sent technical aid to Thamesville. Only casualties were treated at the scene for contact with the chemical
Spectator at the cleanup stands near the rear part of the overturned truck which was split in half by a Canadian National Railways train. Sodium cyanide pellets are on the ground near his feet
Below. Golf-ball sized sodium cyanide pellets spill from a broken drum
Lower right. After pellets were removed, chemicals are spread over the area to counteract any contamination which might remain
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1957
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