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Powder That Pours. Standard's "cat cracker" improves on previous catalytic cracking. It functions with a minimum of moving parts (only pumps and blowers), manpower (eight men)-and without pause. In the past various catalysts*-usually porous, claylike materials-have been used to help break up the complex hydrocarbon compounds and recombine them into more usable form. Catalytic cracking, with various catalysts and conditions of use, can be controlled to a far greater degree than the older thermal cracking, in which reactions are produced by high temperatures and pressure. But coke (carbon) is by the nature of the reaction...
Standard Oilmen are proud of their "cat cracker" because it is the first to operate continuously. Instead of passing oil vapors through a catalytic bed or chamber, as in older devices, the process uses a powdered catalyst so fine that it acts like a liquid, is carried along by the very vapors it cracks. As a powder, the catalyst exposes the maximum surface to the reaction...
...jazz records. If jazz could be given the needle, Guitarist Condon was the man to do it. An oldtime member of Chicago's Austin High gang, he organized bands for the first great jazz records of the Chicago school in 1927. Ever since he has been a catalyst of jazz, who never takes a chorus himself...
Frendian psychology is the catalyst. Soule is convinced that man's behavior can be understood only by first understanding his emotions, and that the key to emotional conduct is observation of physiological reactions. From this starting-point he goes on to consider Freud's analysis of the individual mind and to apply it to society as a whole. The accepted Freudian terms, id, ego, and superego, are used to describe the basic reasons for behavior in every social activity. In one of the chapters, revolutionary dialectic is explained by identifying Marx's thesis, antithesis, and synthesis with Frend's three...
Ernest Kanzler, onetime Ford production chief, whom Donald Nelson appointed to see to it that every auto plant in Detroit is geared to war production, last week held his first press conference. It was unexciting. Said Mr. Kanzler: "I am here only to serve as the catalyst"-which meant, said hard-boiled newspapermen, that he would be the gadfly to spur dunderheaded laggards into speedup. Much of the U.S. public had expected Kanzler to announce resoundingly that the automobile industry would forthwith be converted to defense. But Detroit knew that the industry was already converted...