Packaging by RICHARD W. LAHEY Harry A . Campbell Chief Inspector, Bureau of Explosives Harry A. Campbell, who has been associated with the Bureau of Explosives for the past 3 4 years, was appointed chief inspector on. May 1, 1943. He has served as an inspector and as assistant chief inspector of that bureau.
Harry A . Campbell
Mr. Campbell's kc n interest in and wide experience with explosives and all kinds of explosive devices, as well as other dangerous articles, has made him an invaluable adviser and director in the transportation field. During World "War I Mr. Campbell supervised and directed the handling and transportation of explosives to various ports for export. He made official investigations of explosions that occurred in plants and railroad yards, including the explosion on Black Tom Island. After that war he supervised the unloading of ships that returned with ammunition and explosives from the battle fronts. He also supervised the dismantling and destruction of ammunition and explosives. His experience and expert knowledge have again played an important part in the present conflict. He assisted the Army and N a v y Departments in selecting suitable sites for explosive manufacturing plants and locations for the establishment of piers at ports for loading explosives on board ships. H e is a consultant of the Army and Navy Departments, a member of the Safety Council of the Chief of Ordnance of the Army, chairman of the Transportation Advisory Com-
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mittee of the Ordnance Department, and consultant of the Merchant Marine Council. He is an honorary member of the Institute of Makers of Explosives and a member of v ) u s other organizations and committees in the United States and Canada.
Special Directives to Speed Up. Transportation of Materials Moving in Tank Cars TCS-604. The Office of Defense Transportation recently issued two special directives designed to effect more efficient use of the tank cars which are moving petroleum products, chemicals, and other important war materials. One (Special Directive ODT 7, Revision 1) effective immediately, prohibits the use of tank cars for the movement of any commodity not included in a list of approximately 250 products designated by the War Production Board as essential to the war, unless such movements are authorized by ODT permits. The other (Special Directive ODT 7, Revision 2), effective July 31, requires that tank cars b e loaded to certain specific standards of capacity, except as specifically allowed by ODT permits. Essentially, the maximum-loading directive requires loading in the dome of the tank car with a resulting increase in capacity of three t o five barrels. For products, such as gasoline, which cannot be loaded in the dome safely, other standards are provided by the directive. Heavy fuel oils, gas oil, furnace oils, vegetable oils, and some chemicals, however, can be dome-loaded without danger. The ban on movement of nonessential commodities in tank cars applies to loading, offering for shipment, accepting, and shipping. Exempt from its provisions are cars containing commodities consigned by or to the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps. The directive has no effect o n a previous ODT order requiring permits for all tank car movements for distances of less than 200 miles. Both directives were signed by A. V. Bourque, Associate Director of the ODT Division of Petroleum and Other Liquid Transport, under authority delegated to him by Director Joseph B. Eastman. Requests for permits under the directives must be made to the Section of Tank Car Service, Division of Petroleum and Other Liquid Transport, ODT, in Washington, D . C. Commodities which may be moved in tank cars without ODT permits follow: SCHEDULE A—LIST OF COMMODITIES ESSENTIAL TO WAR PRODUCTION Acetaldehyde Acetic 1anhydride Acetone Acids Acrylonitrile Alcohols1 Aluminum chloride Aluminum sulfate
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Ammoniacal liquor or aqua ammonia Ammonium nitrate liquor Ammonium sulfide Ammonium thiocyanate liquor Amy] acetate Amyl chloride Anhydrous ammonia Aniline oils Anti freezing compounds Apple juice Arsenic Arsenic trichloride (chloride) Arsenical compounds, N. O. S. Asphalt2 Aviation gasoline1 (of Octane No. 87, 91, and 100) and its component parts, such as: Alkylate Aromatic fractions for aviation Aviation base stocks Butylene Codimer Hydrocodimer Isobutane Isobutylene Iso-octane Isopentane (pentane) Benzol (benzene) Butadiene1 Butanes22 Butenes Butyl acetate Butyl aldehyde Butylamines Butyl lactate Butyraldehyde Calcium chloride, liquid Calcium hypochlorite (chlorinated lime) Carbonate of potash, liquid Carbon bisulfide (carbon disulfide) Carbon dioxide, liquefied Carbon tetrachloride Castor oil Caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) Caustic soda (sodium hydroxide)l Chemicals, other, shipped as ^''chemicals NOIBN" Chlorine, liquid Chlorobenzol (monochlorobenzol) Chloroform Coal-tar pitch Coconut oil (copra) Copper naphthenate Core compound, foundry Corn oil Corn syrup (glucose)2 Cottonseed oil Cotton softener Creosote oil Creosote-tar solution Cresol Crude naphthalene Crude tar acid Crude tar oil Cumene2 (isopropylbcnzene or isopropyl-benzinc) Cyanide of sodium liquor Cyanogen sludge Diacetone Dibutyl, diethyl, dimethyl, or dioctyliphthalate Dichlorodifluoromethane Dichloromonofluoromethane Dichlorotetrafluoromethane Diethyl sulfate Diethylene glycol Dimethylamline Dinitrochlorobenzol Diphenyl Diphcnylamine Dye intermediates Ester gums Ether (ethyl, dichloroethyl, or isopropyl) Ethyl acetate Ethylamines Ethyl chloride Ethylene bromide or dibromide
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Packaging Naphtha Naphthalene, including crude Naphtha solvent Neutral oil Nitrobenzol Nitrocellulose solution Nitrogen fertilizer solution (including crude) Nylon salt solution Oil foots or sediment Oil tar Oil tar oil Oiticica oil Oleic acid (red oil) Olive oil Orthodichlorobenzol Oxygen, liquid Paint, lacquer, varnish sum resin, or pyroxylin plasticizers or solvents Paint, lacquer or varnish, increasing, reducing. removing or thinning; compounds Paint oil compounded Paints, stains, varnishes, or lacquers Palm oil Paraffin wax, chlorinated Paraldehyde Peanut oil Perchloroethylene Petroleum, crude 2 Petroleum products (not otherwise listed)* Phenol (carbolic acid) Phosphorus Phosphorus oxychloride Phosphorus trichloride Pickles Pinene Pine oils Pitch, pine tar Pitch, rosin Plasticizers Pork fat, rendered Potassium chlorate, w e t Powder, smokeless, in water Preservatives, wood Propanes2 Proprietary antifreeze preparations Propylene dichloride Propylene glycol Pulp mill liquid Pyridine Pyroxylin solution Pyroxylin waterproofing liquid
Ethylene chlorohydrin Ethylene di chloride Ethylene glycol Ethvlene oxide Ethyl methyl ketone (methyl ethyl ketone) Evaporated tankwater Fatty acid esters Fatty acid pitch Fertilizer ammoniating solution Fish or sea animal oil Formaldehyde* liquid Formamide Furfural Gas drip oil, including crude Glycerin Grease (inedible animal) Hydrogen dioxide or peroxide Hydrol (corn sugar final molasses)' Ink, printing Insecticides Iron acetate (iron liquor) Iron chloride (ferric) Iron sulfate solution Isobutyl acetate Isoprene Isopropyl acetate Lard Lard oil Latex Lead tetraethyl* Lead and naphthenio acid compound Lignin liquor Lime, chlorinated Lime and sulfur solution Linseed oil Liquefied petroleum gases* Liquid paint drier Manganese sulfate in solution Methanol Methyl acetate Methyl acetone Methyl chloride Methylene chloride Methyl formate Methyl isobutyl ketone Milk Molasses (beet, blackstrap, invert.
