I/EC REPORTS Curiosity is the key to progress
This curious gentleman will be happy to learn of progress in wood-towood glues through the use of FA
You can profit from curiosity
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Q O FURFURYL ALCOHOL is a simple heterocyclic compound con sisting of a furan nucleus and a hydroxymethyl group. FA is useful for these purposes: 1. As a resin former for the manu facture of black thermosetting resins that resist acids, alkalies and solvents 2. As a resin ingredient 3. As a solvent for resins and dyes
4. As a wetting agent and reactive solvent 5. As an additive in making gapfilling adhesives from urea-formal dehyde resins 6. As a modifier in the manufacture of asphaltic battery cases
FA'S ready availability and low cost is prompting research by indus tries with products and processes akin to the above. If you are one of these, be curious about Q O Furfuryl Alcohol. Bulletin 205 tells all about FA—Send for your copy!
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City, Mo., has exclusive U. S. rights to the compound for veterinary use. In animals, as in humans, Butazolidine is used to treat arthritic disorders, lameness, and the aches and pains of old age. Posterior paralysis is one such complaint. It's common in long-backed dogs, like dachshunds, who can get it simply by twisting their backs when they jump off of chairs. Symptoms include droopy tails and weak hind legs. Since Butazolidin entered the veterinary market this year, it has induced numerous striking recoveries from this and similar canine ailments. Jen-Sal hears equally glowing re ports from the turf crowd. Race horse veterinarians, it seems, in clude in their case histories a de tailed report on how the patient did the next few times out. One such report, from a vet who had treated an aching plater with Buta zolidin, winds up by saying: ". . .ran second. Should have won!" Al though the drug apparently fills sore horses with joie de vivre, it is not a stimulant. It just returns horses to peak efficiency, provided they have been suffering from ail ments for which it's specific. Jen-Sal has heard of Butazolidin inciting to larceny or, to use the kinder term, slick trading. It hap pens that sore joints and the like can cut a cow's milk production markedly, and that Butazolidin can restore production by removing the discomfort. One farmer got an ailing cow back to par this way, then rushed out and sold her in the expectation that the drug's effect would wear off. Butazolidin can rejuvenate bulls, too, if various aches and pains are cutting into their steam. So far, the compound hasn't done much for cats which are a peculiar breed, metabolically, any way. Morphine, for instance, is a sedative for most vertebrates but it affects cats something like high octane catnip. They crawl right up the walls. Butazolidin, in the right dosage, will kill cats. But Jen-Sal is still studying the phe nomenon, hoping to eliminate this unhappy side effect so it can tap the pet cat market. Butazolidin works, apparently, by
In Japan: F. Kanematsu & Company, Ltd., Tokyo
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