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A $ 4 0 m i l l i o n l u b r i c a t i n g o i l p l a n t , j o i n t p r o j e c t o f Cities S e r v ice Co. a n d Continental Oil Co., begins operation in Louisiana • · . President of Atlas P o w d e r Co. explains u s e of their emulsifiers i n b a k e r y p r o d u c t s b e f o r e S e n a t e A g r i c u l t u r e S u b c o m m i t t e e $40 million lubricating oil plant, with a rated capacity of 2,072,000 barrels of product a year has been put into operation at Lake Charles, La., by Cit-Con Oil Corp., a joint venture con trolled */« by Cities Service Co. and 1 / 8 by Continental Oil Co. In addition to production of lubricating oil the new facilities manufacture 35,000 tons of wax annually, about 15% of total national capacity. The plant processes 18,000 barrels of crude daily, piped directly from the near-by Cities Service refinery. 12,000 barrels of oil, stripped of the lub oil fraction, will be returned to the refinery every day. Products will be shipped from the plant by rail and by ships and barges docking at the adjacent Cities Service docks on the Calcasieu River. To process further some of the prod ucts of the new plant, Cities Service has under construction a $4 million blending plant at Chicago. The new installation will first vacuumdistill the crude to produce several closely controlled fractions and a bottom residuum. The overhead fractions will be furfural solvent refined; the bottoms will be solvent refined with duo-sol. All fractions will then be dewaxed with methyl ethyl ketone and the dewaxed oil will be treated with clay to improve color and stability. The crude wax will be acid treated and then percolated through bauxite clay, to improve color and re move odor and taste.
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Emulsifier
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A discussion of the development, grow ing use, and effect of emulsifiers on the consumption of fats and oils highlighted a recent hearing of the Senate Agricul ture Subcommittee on the Utilization of Farm Crops. Isaac Fogg, president of the Atlas Powder Co., Wilmington, Del., in presenting the case for Atlas emulsi fiers, emphasized that agricultural prod ucts such as fats and oils and corn sugar were the principal raw materials used in preparing food emulsifiers. His company last year used 12 million pounds of corn •ugar and over 8 million pounds of nat ural fats and oils, and in all, used ap proximately 40 million pounds of in gredients derived from farm crops. Mr. Fogg outlined the synthesis of their emulsifiers from corn sugar and other products. He explained their use as additives to bread and other baked V O L U M E
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goods to make the ingredients mix prop erly and improve quality. He empha sized that these products are not substi tutes for shortening or any other nutri tional ingredients. Mr. Fogg also dis cussed long-time human and animal feeding studies undertaken to establish that the emulsifiers have no toxic or harmful effects on humans. He at tributed some of the bitter propaganda casting doubt on Atlas food emulsifiers to competitors who make other types of emulsifiers.
Cold Rubber
equipment were authorized by the Fed eral Government less than a year ago. This conversion places the industry, a subsidiary of the Goodyear Tire & Rub ber Co., among the leaders in the na tion's cold rubber production picture. Before conversion started, the Houston plant had produced more than 600 mil lion pounds of conventional GR-S. The plant's remaining 24 reactors will con tinue production of this material, Good year has announced.
Plant
Facilities for the annual output of 30,000 long tons of cold synthetic rubber went into production in Houston, Tex., at a Government-owned plant operated by the Goodyear Synthetic Rubber Corp Conversion of 24 of the plant's 48 re actors and installation of refrigeration
20,000-Barrel
Refinery
A new refinery with crude units design capacity at 20,000 barrels per day, re cently completed by Carter Oil Co., has been opened. The refinery will produce gasolines, kerosene, heating oils, asphalt, Diesel fuels, and fuel oils. Refining processes consist of atmospheric and vacuum distillation, catalytic desulfurization, gasoline refining, and facilities for treating desulfurized distillates. The refinery is three miles east of Billings, Mont., on the Yellowstone River, and it replaces a 10,000-barrel capacity
Cfn^jl FIELD REPORT Subject:
Nuchar for Purification of Wines
The following notes were submitted by one of our Nuchar Activated Carbon Technicians following a recent visit to a large number of important wineries throughout the country. 1. Color removal—Ordinarily, our Nu char C in a dosage of from 1 to 10 lbs. per 1,000 gals, of wine has been found to be quite effective in decolorizing white port, sherry, muscatel and brandies. In addi tion to color removal, Nuchar acts as a stabilizing agent and is also very effective for the removal of Browning agents and oxidation bodies which are responsible for color development in wines on standing. 2. Odor and flavor removal—Nuchar WA in dosages from 1 to 5 lbs. per 1,000 gals, of wine has been found to remove musty, woody, or scorched odors and flavors from wine. 3. Cloud and haze removal—Brilliant wines can be produced with Nuchar Acti vated Carbon in dosages of from 1 to 2 lbs. per 1,000 gals, of wine by removal of colloids and other haze bodies which are detrimental to the appearance of a wine.
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4. Iron removal—ΕΛΓΘΠ though Nuchar grades contain small amounts of iron, they still adsorb additional iron from the wine. 5. Detannatinç agent—Detannated wines for pharmaceutical use can be prepared by applying a dosage of Nuchar at the rate of 20 to 40 lbs. per 1,000 gals, of wine. Nuchar C is the recommended grade for this use. 6. Claims have been made for the use of Nuchar in regard t o tartrate removal. Since Nuchar is very low in calcium content, this is definitely a point in its favor as calcium impartation will tend to form a calcium tartrate haze. 7. There are also claims that Nuchar js also quite effective for copper removal in conjunction with other conditioning treatments. Write today for a complete technical report on the use of Nuchar in the purification of wines. New York Central Building, 230 Park Ave.· New Y o r k 17, Ν . Υ. Leader Building, 5 2 6 Superior Ave., N. W. Cleveland 14, Ohio Pure Oil Building, 35 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago 1, 111. Public Ledger Building, Independence Square. Philadelphia 6, Pa.
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refinery of Carter, also in Billings. T h e old refinery is being dismantled and m a terials sold, although 300,000 barrels of tankage will continue to be used in the new operation. Total storage capacity for 1,400,000 barrels of crude and finished products is provided. Steam for power, heat, and process requirements is generated in the boiler house with a capacity of 168,000 pounds of steam an hour. Refinery wastes are discharged into septic tanks. More than 150 miles of pipe within the refinery yards make up the system for moving crude into the various refining and processing units. Design and erection of the refinery facilities wrere joint efforts of Esso E n gineering, Universal Oil Products Co.. and Fluor Corp. T h e Billings refinery was a matter of complete new design in that it was nec essary to move irrigation ditches, grade huge tracts of land, and make provisions for all utilities where none existed, Uni versal announced.
Tests to Begin on Linear Accelerator Stanford physicists are ready t o begin tests on the first 15-foot section of the university's new type atom smasher— the electron linear accelerator. T h e initial section of the accelerator is expected to produce 70 t o 80 million electron volts compared t o the billion volt output which the physicists hope to have when the atom smasher is c o m pleted to its 160-foot length. T h i s was reported b y the Stanford physics department staff at a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical E n gineers in San Francisco on Aug. 26. T h e linear accelerator is being built under a contract with the Office of Naval Research. A working model of the accelerator has been constructed which produces electrons of more than six million volts.
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George Eastman House will b e opened on N o v . 9, C. Ε . Κ. Mees, president of the photographic center in Rochester, Ν. Υ., has announced. T h e house, a Georgian colonial home, was built b y George Eastman at 900 East A v e . i n 1905 for himself and his mother. A t the time of his death in 1932, he bequeathed it t o the University of Rochester. Offi cially known as George Eastman House, Inc., it was set up as an independent photographic educational institute b y t h e N e w York State Board of Regents in 1947. Space for the contemporary e x hibits of photography in science and i n dustry is available now that the reCHEMICAL
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Acquisition
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Shell Union Oil Corp. has announced plans to acquire all of the assets of its wholly owned subsidiary, Shell Oil Co., Inc., as of Sept. 30. This is the final step in a long range plan of corporate simplification. The wholly owned Shell Pipeline Corp. and Shell Chemical Corp. are not in volved in the corporate consolidation under consideration.
Debt
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Deadline
The Department of Justice has an nounced that Jan. 3, 1950, has been fixed as the deadline for filing debt claims against all individuals and busi ness enterprises whose property was first seized as alien property between Jan. 1 and June 30, 1948. Creditors of persons or firms whose property has been taken over by the U. S. Government under the Trading with the Enemy Act may file claims with the Attorney General.
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Preliminary unaudited figures of M c Kesson & Robbins, Inc., for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1949, showing con solidated n e t profit of $8,766,345, have been announced. After provision for preferred stock dividends, this net profit was equivalent to $4.87 per share o n the common stock. In t h e previous fiscal year the company reported consolidated net profit of $8,796,198 equivalent to $4.89 per share o n the common stock. Eastman Kodak Co.'s earnings for the first half of 1949 dropped 24% below earnings for the same period in 1948, the company has reported. N e t earnings during the half were $21,368,830 or $1.63 per common share. This compared with $28,017,724, or $ 2 5 4 a share, for the corresponding time in 1948. Consolidated net income of Cities Service Co. and subsidiaries for the six months ended June 30, 1949, was $30,159,009, it has been announced. This compares with consolidated net income of $35,717,796 for the same period last year, and is the equivalent of $8.15 per share of common stock as against $9.64 per share during the same period of 1948. From 4,200 corporation annual reports for 1948 submitted in the annual survey conducted b y the Financial World, that of the Diamond Match Co. has been selected as qualified for the publication's highest merit award. AND
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INCONEL At home in 2 2 0 0 degree heat or protecting delicate Chloromycetin . · · this modern high-Nickel a l l o y solves m a n y of industry's most troublesome metal problems·
NOMINAL CHEMICAL COMPOSITION (Wrought) Nickel Chromium Iron Manganese Copper Silicon Carbon Sulfur
77. 15. 7. 0.25 0.2 0.25 0.06 0.007
Combining remarkable thermal durability, corrosion-resistance and strength . . . Inconel* is unique a m o n g metals. Inconel is a thoroughly practical m e t a l : workable, economical, readily available in m a n y convenient forms. I n c o n e l . . . and o n l y I n c o n e l . . . brings y o u all these desirable properties in a single a l l o y : •
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Procter & Gamble Co. has announced a consolidated net profit for the fiscal year ending June 30 of $28,665,481 compared with a profit of $65,418,689 ID 1948. At a special meeting, the shareholders of the Jefferson Lake Sulphur Co., Inc., New Orleans, voted approval of the merger and consolidation of the company into Jefferson Lake Sulphur Co., a New Jersey corporation organized especially to carry on the business and affairs of the firm. The actual merger and consolidation are expected to take place on Jan. 1, 1950. The Davison Chemical Corp. has announced a net income of $2,275,884 equivalent to $4.43 per share of capital stock, for the year ended June 30. The firm's board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of SO375 ppr share on its capital stock
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Formation of Mechanical Industries, Inc., a new engineering company whose activities will be limited to industrial ventilation, smoke, dust, and fume control with headquarters in Philadelphia.
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Penna., has been announced b y M . I. Dorfan, president and general manager. Harry T . Campbell Sons' Corp., Baltimore, Md., h a s announced the appoints ment of new broker distributors for the sale of Camelwite (calcium carbonate) and Camel Carb (whiting). T h e new Campbell broker distributors are a s follows : Jensen & McClelland, 510 N . Dearborn St., Chicago; Baker & Collinson, 12000 M t . Elliott, Detroit; Smead db/e
Through a new division the University of California will make its resources available to assist industry and govern ment in solving the complex research problems for which n o private facilities exist. These resources include an engi neering staff and special facilities rang ing from a universal testing machine with a 4 million pound capacity, to microscopic equipment for studying in finitesimal particles of matter.
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