PROTECT or PAY You have no other choice! T h e r e are just t w o r e a s o n s w h y corrosion costs i n d u s t r y o v e r $6,000,000,000 a n n u a l l y : 1. T o t h e l a y m a n , c o r r o s i o n u s u ally m e a n s o n l y v i s i b l e r u s t thus m a n y surfaces a r e left u n p r o t e c t e d until i r r e p a r a b l e d a m a g e is d o n e . 2. T o o o f t e n c o n v e n t i o n a l c o a t ings a r e relied o n to p r o t e c t under c o n d i t i o n s for w h i c h they are neither designed nor suited. D o n ' t risk n e e d l e s s loss from e i t h e r c a u s e . P r o t e c t all critical surfaces w i t h A m e r c o a t — t h e p r o d u c t s d e s i g n e d to g i v e extra protection against s u r f a c e failure. H i g h l y resistant to a w i d e variety of c h e m i c a l s , b r i n e s , f u m e s , weathering a n d abrasion, they are a v a i l a b l e i n a n u m b e r of form u l a s , e a c h built t o m e e t specific conditions. N o b u s i n e s s e s c a p e s t h e effects of corrosion. Y o u m u s t p r o t e c t or p a y , a n d it will p a y y o u t o p r o t e c t now w i t h A m e r c o a t .
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^EW§~§€ltliP¥S A C S ' e r s a t the Top The appointment of Charles Clement French, formerly vice president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, as dean at the A&M College of Texas was announced recently in this magazine (page 1945). Dr. French has been a member of the A M E R I CAN
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has served as an associate of the ACS Committee on Professional Training. In his new position he succeeds M. Thomas Harrington, who has moved up to the presidency of Texas A&M. Dr. Harrington is also a chemist and an ACS member. To t h e best of our knowledge this is the first time the two top posts in an academic institution have been held by ACS members. H i s Ears Turned Red M. H. Baker, w h o sent us the "Dafynitions" that appeared in this column in our issue for July 17, tells us that he was embarrassed by an error which w e made in referring to him as director of research for General Mills. Informing us that he even got a letter from an old friend congratulating him on the "change in status," Mr. Baker has asked us to set the record straight; he is head of the field development section under Frank B. Jewett, Jr., w h o is director of commercial development and business administration. Ralph L. M an ley is director of research. O d e to an Examination S. Morris Kupchan, instructor in chemistry at Harvard, reports that a budding "organiker" ended his final examination in Chemistry 20 recently with the following verses: N o w maybe I should check this stuff, My answers are, I fear, quite rough, But no, I think I've had enough, In fact, too much. I put down what I know, you see, And that I feel is worth a B, Or maybe more, so then I say, Pip, pip, old boy, let's try for A. But then I find to my despair, I search for answers which aren't there. They've floated off to upper air And won't come down, oh please come down. Oh, tell me, little voice from Heaven, Am I right on number seven? D o things react, like there I say, Or do they g o the other way? Hard though I listen, no reply, N o angel's voice from out the sky. So this I guess is best for me, Forget it all; write poetry. "P.S.," concludes an A."
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