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...move overseas has been led by the highly advanced chemical industry, specifically by the three companies into which the victorious Allies shattered the old I. G. Farben cartel. The three are: Hoechst, Farbenfabriken Bayer, and Badische Anilin-& Soda Fabrik. B.A.S.F. recently spent $95 million to buy out Michigan-based Wyandotte Chemicals Corp., the biggest U.S. maker of urethane plastics (1968 sales: $147 million), and it is now putting up $100 million to expand a Wyandotte plant in Louisiana. The firm has also budgeted $200 million to $300 million to build a chemical complex of its own in South Carolina (TIME...
...West Germany, whose surprisingly small ($247 million) U.S. stake reflects a caution resulting from wartime confiscations, may become the biggest investor within the next decade. Hoechst, Bayer and BASF are leading a current surge of interest in manufacturing on American soil the chemical products that they now export to the U.S. The West German government, uneasy about its big trade surplus (TIME, Oct. 25), is strongly urging others to build abroad...
...Trace of Water. The first aspirin was made by Germany's Bayer company, and its U.S. descendant (a division of Sterling Drug Inc.) today charges six to ten times as much as no-name brands. To justify the difference, Bayer contrasts U.S.P.*minimum standards with its own. Before tableting, says U.S.P., the basic chemical must be in tabular or needlelike crystals or crystalline powder; to produce a dependable dissolving rate, Bayer requires a special flake shape and needle shape (slender, tapered at both ends). U.S.P. permits .5% moisture and weight loss on drying; Bayer will tolerate none. U.S.P. allows...
...aspirin is then cleared of impurities by washing with water, any remaining water will react to create a minute quantity of acetic acid-vinegar. This accounts for the vinegary odor and some of the irritating effect of much fresh aspirin and of most old aspirin. So Bayer uses a more costly, water-free process...
...sophomore at Juilliard. Toni proceeded to run her advances up to $20,000. Suddenly, this month, she has broken into the Billboard "Hot 100" with a likely winner, A Groovy Kind of Love. The lyrics, of course, were written by another Kirshner protégé, Schoolteacher Carol Bayer...