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Startling exception to the elaborate vagueness of most reports was the description of an important new process for extracting vanadium from phosphates-as a by-product in the making of fertilizers. Vanadium is a rare metal badly needed by U.S. arms plants for hardening steel. The new method climaxes four years of research by Chemical Engineers J. Perry Morgan (of Standard Oil of New Jersey) and Arthur W. Hixson (of Columbia University...
...Maclntyre. It hopes to get 3,000,000 Ib. a year, worth $2.90 a Ib. as ferro-vanadium. This white metal is vitally needed to increase the tensile strength of steel. As such it will be snapped up like soda pop at a ball game; sale of this by-product alone will rake in almost as much cash in one year as National Lead has spent on the whole Maclntyre development...
Still the King. A year ago the U.S. thought a by-product of aluminum expansion would be the breaking of Alcoa's 50-year monopoly. Many other companies-notably Reynolds Metals, Olin Corp., Bohn Aluminum-seemed eager to cut into the field, especially since the U.S. Government was ready to finance them 100%. But Alcoa is now making 750,000,000 lb. and has taken 512,000,000 lb. of the Government's first 640,000,000 expansion and every pound of the second 640,000,000-lb. project. Result: in March 1943 the Alcoa trade-mark will...
...by-product of Leopold Stokowski's 1940 pilgrimage to South America with his Youth Orchestra came to light this month: a pair of lively albums (Native Brazilian Music, Vols. 1 & 2; Columbia; 8 sides each) made in Rio by native groups under the platinum-haired maestro's guiding hand. Local orchestras play sambas (the best most danceable to date) and macumhas with dizzy cross rhythms. Pixinguingha, a 250-pound Negro medal winner of the Brazilian National Academy of Music, puts in some featherweight flute-playing. Two sides are emboladas: as folkish to Brazilians as Frankie and Johnny...
...lovely coincidence in the new toluene technologies: as high-quality aviation gasoline is a by-product of toluene synthesis, increasing the production of one automatically adds to the supply of the other. Another happy sidelight: whereas, toluene from coal costs 27-30? a gallon, toluene from petroleum costs less than 25?, and the original cost of petroleum-toluene plants is not exorbitantly high. Humble Oil's huge, new catalytic plant in Texas (capable of producing as much toluene as the entire coke industry) cost the U.S. Government only...