Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Works. Victor is small potatoes beside gigantic Du Pont or Allied Chemical & Dye, but in the specialized field of H3PO4 (phosphoric acid) and its derivatives Victor is tops. Its materials are used by the nation's biggest makers of baking powder, Pharmaceuticals, dentifrices, fertilizers, matches and fireworks. Last week Mr. Kochs, though a modest man, was eager to tell the world about all this because Victor was making a public offering of stock for the first time in its 35-year career...
...move-business picked up in 1907, and with the War Victor left its competitors behind. In 1920 it expanded by building a second plant in West Nashville, near Tennessee's phosphate rock quarries. Until then the standard means of extracting phosphorus consisted of mixing the ore with sulphuric acid. In 1922, however, a better method came into general use- mixing ore and sand in electric furnaces at high temperatures. This put August Kochs in a pretty fix, for competitors had tied up the southern power supply. Undaunted, Chemist Kochs adapted the blast furnace used by the steel industry, spent...
When time came last week for Dr. Grieshaber to ask for radio pratique, he decided that the fever and nausea among the Hansa'?, crew was the result of their inhaling hydrocyanic acid gas left in the hold when she was last fumigated against rats. No law required him to report this kind of accident to Chief Quarantine Officer Akin. So the Hansa steamed past Quarantine, docked, debarked 993 passengers. An inspector of the U. S. Immigration Service, Dr. Henry M. Friedman, went aboard for a look-round. What he saw in the crew's hospital sent him running...
...fingerprints, photographs, aliases and nicknames of 7,052,061 U. S. malefactors. Surest of these four keys to the identity of criminals are fingerprints which differ even in identical twins, but even fingerprints are not foolproof. The late John Dillinger had a plastic surgeon mutilate his fingertips with acid but failed to obliterate their prints because the job was poorly done (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). The finger prints of another recent murderer, John Hamilton, proved useless to police who found his body a year after his death. Identification of Hamilton was effected because his teeth, most durable part...
More than a million gallons of Dowell inhibitive acids go into 400 wells every month under the direction of 74 Dowell "acid doctors," trained petroleum and chemical engineers and geologists. Dowell's 201 pieces of automotive equipment travel 200,000 miles each month...