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Public Trust. At 58, George Merck looks like the priceless catalyst in this whole process that he is. A blond, blue-eyed giant (6 ft. 5 in.) with an easy smile and an exuberant capacity for work (he spends his days, he says, "half at the New York office, half at Rahway, and half at home"), he takes his company's role and reputation with dedicated seriousness. Wihen Merck researchers find a new product, the company gets it on the market as fast as it can, then lowers the price as fast as production will allow. Within a year...
More Energy. Houdry's process is quite simple. The catalytic units are arranged in layers in the chimneys, and each unit has 73 porcelain rods coated with a thin film (only .003 inch) of alumina and platinum alloy. This coating is the catalyst, which combines with oxygen in the atmosphere to burn up noxious wastes, and in so doing generates still greater heat...
Inventor Houdry has formed a company, Oxy-Catalyst Manufacturing Co., and rented a plant at Wayne, Pa. to turn out the catalytic units...
There is little doubt in anyone's mind that "Candida" is a clever play, good Shaw. The celebrated cynic has written his barbs into a smoothly flowing story of a woman and her dependents, of a catalyst and its reagents. The development of the story is neat, clean, and vastly amusing...
...which was scattered by Hitler's terrorism, of the health institute in Tokyo which became a military headquarters, of a physics institute in Madrid standing isolated and unused . . ." But over the years, the foundation has had much to compensate for such setbacks. It has been such a vast catalyst to achievement that even old John D. was awed. "We have built," said he to Frederick Gates in 1924, "better than we knew." In 1952, with the income from $131,480,000 to spend, the foundation is still abuilding...