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the provisions of the Export Trade Act. Sale of cathodic protection products for retarding electrolytic corrosion of pipe lines and industrial equipment has been transferred from the magnesium sales division of the Dow Chemical Co., to Dowell, Inc., a wholly-owned Dow sub sidiary. Guy Williams heads the new sales activity, while Yale Titterington is to handle technical service. Robert Gair Co., Inc., New York, Ν. Y., has announced that carton equipment and business of the recently acquired M. S. Dowd Carton Co. plant at Groton, Conn., is to be moved to and consolidated with the Connecticut cartons division of the Giar company, located at Montville, near Now London. Production will be under the direction of C. S. Huestis. The Harold L. Heakin Co. has been ap pointed as exclusive representative for the products of Autoclave Engineers, Inc., of Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Heakin will service California, Washington, and Oregon, and territory east, to and including Salt Lake City. New offices are located at 5S2 Market St., San Francisco. All technical and commercial aspects of Ni-Resist will be discussed at a series of meetings sponsored by the International Nickel Co. and to be held in centrally located cities throughout the U. S. and in
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Montreal, Que., during March, April, May, and September. Designed as a coopera tive program in the interest of meeting consumer demands, the meetings will bring together representatives of the licensed producers of Ni-Resist, as well as technical and commercial personnel of the company. A low-cost plant is to be built by In dustrial Rayon Corp. on a 1,200-acre site on the Ohio River near Pleasant Point, W. Va. Construction will begin when the company's continuous process for making viscose rayon yarn has been perfected. Establishment of a shop with complete production facilities for the manufacture of heat transfer equipment lias been an nounced by the vessel division of the A. O. Smith Corp. P. A. Thompson has been appointed product supervisor for heat transfer equipment. An expansion program which will in clude additions to its Jayhawk Works in Pittsburg, Kan., has been revealed by Spencer Chemical Co. Plans include in crease in anhydrous ammonia production capacity by an estimated 50,000 to 40,000 tons annually and a slight increase in methanol capacity. Plans to replace A. E. Staley Mfg. Co.'s pioneer soybean oil expeller plant with a new and modern solvent extraction plant
of equivalent capacity at a cost of "several million dollars" have been announced. The new extraction plant will be erected on a site adjacent to the company's present extraction plant, which was completed in 1945. The United States Rubber Co. has moved its Chicago branch offices from 440 West Washington St. to the Merchandise Mart building. The move involved a staff of some 300 people. The Warren Steam Pump Co. has re cently appointed Ira Rosin its Cleveland representative for industrial sales. The Wolf Co. is completing plans for the construction of a new model flour mill on its property in Chambersburg, Pa. The mill will provide income to help defray ex penses incidental to laboratory testing of processing equipment and resultant flour stocks. Other manufacturers of flour mill ing machinery and accessories are collabo rating by installing in this commercial mill the best milling equipment. Mill owners, colleges, universities, and industrial and re search agencies are being invited to use the facilities of the mill for their technological studies and research work.
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Cost reduction on protectivo work gloves with 25% longer-wearing NEOX Resilient neoprene combined with durable plastic, chemically welded to high tensile fabric lining. Gives snagproof, liquid-proof, safer protection against acids, caustics, oils, greases, solvents, at provably* lower cost. *Free test offer: Send brief description of your operation, materials handled and temperature conditions. We *will forward samples of the type glove we recommend, for on-the-job test and report. Edmont Mfg. Co., 549 Orange St., Coshocton, Ohio.
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Microanalysis
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The Texas Co. has established a gradu ate fellowship in microchemical analysis at New York University, New York, Ν. Υ. This is the only fellowship of its kind in existence, the company believes. The purpose of the fellowship is the compara tive study of methods for determining the presence of sulfur in organic materials by microchemical techniques. The work will be directed by J. E. Vance, head of the department of chemistry.
Harvard Creates Division of Engineering Sciences Liquid-Proof plastic coated gloves,
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neering sciences is being created at Har vard University, Cambridge, Mass., to unite the Faculty of Engineering, which gives graduate training in civil, mechani cal, electrical, and sanitary engineering, with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which includes the department of engi neering sciences and applied physics. It will offer an expanded program of under graduate and graduate education and re search in applied science and engineering. G. M. Fair, present dean of the graduate school of engineering, will become chair man of the new division.
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Basic Courses in Tracer Techniques The special training division of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies will conduct three basic courses in the tech niques of using radioisotopes as tracers during the summer. In addition, tenta tive plans are being made for two second ary courses in this field. The basic courses will be similar to a se ries of seven courses offered at Oak Ridge last summer and during the fall and winter months. Thirty-two participants will be accepted for each of the four-week courses. Each session is divided into laboratory work, lectures on laboratory experiments, general background lectures, and specialtopic seminars. Additional information
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Awards offered under the Fulbright Act, granting opportunities for 15 Ameri can citizens to do graduate study, under take advanced research, or serve as visit ing professors in the Philippines, have been announced by the «Department of State for the academic year 1949-50. Ten of the awards are for American visiting professors, and fields of instruction include chemical engineering and natural sciences. Additional information regarding oppor tunities for visiting professors and re
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ΤΓ7Έ ARE indebted to the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, 246 Woodward Bldg., ™ Washington, D . C , for the following report. (Base 1935-39 = 100) SEASONALLY ADJUSTED WITHOUT ADJUSTMENT • (Federal Reserve Board) JAN. 1949 D E C . 1948 JAN. 1948 JAN. 1949 D E C . 1948 J A N . 1948 Industrial production 189 191» 190 187° 192 193 450 437 438° 437 450 Chemical production 438· 254 225 259 225 254 Steel production 259 176 171 171 176 By-product coke production 466 442 483° 442 466 Beehive coke production 483» 145 161 145° 161 145 Bituminous coal production 145° 128 133 120 144 137 Freight carloadings 131 495 225 228* 286 309 Department store sales, 'value 290° (Base 1923-25 = 100) 123 126 152 145 Construction contracts, residential 164 181 223 209 All other (Base 1939 « 100) 1DEC. 1948 ]DEC. 1947 Nov. 1948 Index of wage earner All manufacturing 159.4» 161.9 161.5 296.1 301.4 employment: 302.1° Chemicals 239.2 235.4 (U. S. Dept. of Labor) 233.9° Drugs 163.1 152.4 152.1° Fertilizers 248.8 239.2 239.6* Compressed gases 365.7 379.0 377.8° Index of wage earner All manufacturing payroll : 580.8 637.5 639.7° Chemicals (U. S. Dept. of Labor) 488.5 512.4 511.9° Drugs 430.8 415.3 427.5* (Base 1939 = 100) Fertilizers 459.6 491.0 483.8° Compressed gases 1 13,263.0 13,233.0 13,055.0° Estimated number of A ? manufacturing 207.0 210.7 211.2° Cntmicals wage earners: Drugs 65.9 64.4° 64.8 (in thousands) Fertilizers 30.7 28.7 28.7° (U. S. Dept. of Labor) 9.9 9.5 9.5° Compressed gases (Base 1926 « 100) JAN. 1949 DEC. 1948 JAN. 1948 Wholesale price indexes: All products 160.6° 162.3 165.7 (U. S. Dept. of Labor) AU products (except farm 148.3 153.0 152.9° products and foods) 125.8 122.4 121.2° Chemicals 154.4 150.3° 151.4 Drugs and pharmaceuticals 115.7 120.8° 120.1 Fertilizer materials A v . WEEKLY EARNINGS Av. WEEKLY HOURS A V . HOURLY EARNINGS Hours and Earnings: DEC. NOV. DEC. D KC. N O V . D"BC. DEC. Nov. DEC. (U. S. Dept. of Labor) 1948 1948 1947 1948 1948 1Θ47 1948 1948 1947 All manufacturing $55.10° S54.57 $02.69 40.0* 3 9 . 8 41, 2 $1.376° $1 .371 SI.278 41. 1° 4 1 . 1 41. .2 1.574° 1, .574 1.457 Chemicals 64.72· 64.65 60.07 Average cost of living inι large cities, all items (1935-39 = 100) 1949 170.9
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Thirteen young scientists have been ap pointed as the second group of Scholars in Medical Science under the plan begun in 1948 by the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, Nev/ York, Ν. Υ., to assist qualified men and women wishing to re main in academic medicine. The schol ars were selected from candidates nomi nated by accredited medical schools in the U. S. and Canada and interviewed by re gional committees appointed by the foun dation. The sum of $325,000 has been appropriated for their support, to be alloted in grants of $25,000 each at the rate of $5,000 a year, to the medical schools in which they now hold faculty ap pointments. The appointments to begin in 1949, their areas of interest, and the schools to receive the grants include: F. P. Chinard, clinical chemistry and physiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; C. B. Mueller, surgery and biochemistry, Wash ington University, St. Louis; and G.· W. Schwert, Jr., physical biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, N. C.
Reilly
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Two Reilly lectureships in chemistry will be given at the University of Notre Dame for this spring. Mel vin Calvin of the University of California will deliver three talks, April 21, 25, and 26 on "The Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis.'' George Kimball of Columbia University will speak May 2, 4, and 6 on "Modern Concepts of Valency."
Insulation Army at
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Under contract with Rensselaer Poly technic Institute, Troy, N. Y., the U. S. Army's Signal Corps Engineering Lab oratory, Fort Monmouth, N. J., is financ ing one to two years of research by Rens selaer scientists seeking to improve insula tion of electronic wiring. R. H. Luce, head of the institute's biology department, is in charge of the project, for which the Signal Corps has made $37,300 available during 1949. Associated with him in the work are Κ. Ν. Mathes, electrical engi neer, J. H. Harley and J. U. Shephardson in analytical chemistry, and W. H. Rauscher, H. F. Hammer, and D . L. MacPeek in organic chemistry. They are studying the characteristics of insulation surfaces and seek to develop a fungicide which will be effective and stable over a wide range of temperatures. AND
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