Word: carbonization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American Rolling Mills 730 663 D American Steel Foundries 1,019 66 Anaconda Wire & Cable 59 161 Art Metal Construction 157 30 D Atlas Tack 22 D 26 D Barnsdall (oil) 1,420 1 Columbian on Carbon 810 560 Commercial Credit 1,087 865 Container Corp. 135 124 D Crosley Radio 696 D 471 D de Long Hook & Eye 38 48 General American Tank Car 1,703 1,204 Grand Union 235 249 Hayes Body 106 D 93 D Long Bell Lumber 305 D 700 D Ludlum Steel 49 D 16 Mack Trucks 490 178 D Maytag (washing machines...
...exposition. If there were any over-the-counter sales of devices, they escaped attention. Nonetheless hope persisted of another Jonathan Ogden Armour passing by. The late Mr. Armour, as every inventor knows, liked to take fliers. One such was a process for "cracking" oil, worked out by Jesse and Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. When the Armour fortune faded, profits from that old gamble on Mr. Armour's part re-enriched his widow, enabled her again to live beautifully (FORTUNE, April...
...from France. His son. Peter Joseph Schweitzer, emigrated to the U. S., set up an importing business, later acquired a mill in France. William and Louis Schweitzer went to the University of Maine, majored in paper engineering, also worked in France. In a mill at Jersey City they make carbon paper and the thin tissue which radio manufacturers need for insulation. Their factory at Elizabeth was acquired in 1929. equipped for the manufacture of cigaret paper. Their method is modern, but essentially the same as that in France. Rags are washed and beaten, transformed into paper to which calcium carbonate...
...controls Sterno Corp., heat canners. Its biggest customers are in the automobile and chemical industries, where alcohol and its by-products are used for solvents, lacquers, fertilizers. Industrial Alcohol works hand-in-hand with Air Reduction, the two companies having recently joined their research departments. Air Reduction controls Pure Carbonic Co. of America in which Alcohol has a 20% interest. Alcohol sells carbon dioxide (CO2) to Air Reduction and Pure Carbonic, which sells carbonic gas to soft drink and dry ice manufacturers. In this field the companies are rivals of Liquid Carbonic Corp. and its ally, Dry Ice Holding...
Although last week's price storm may clear the atmosphere for a long time in the alcohol industry, economic observers have sighted another cloud in the distance. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. has successfully made various types of alcohol by synthesis of the elements instead of fermentation. In Carbide's annual report last fortnight shareholders read: "The first large commercial plant ever built for the synthetic production of ethanol (ethyl alcohol) was put in operation in the summer of 1930, and the results as to capacity, yields, costs of manufacture and quality of product were more favorable than estimated...