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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a paper-"Canned Atlantic Crab Meat, A New American Food"-was presented before the American Chemical Society's meeting in Boston. Its authors: a neat, greying food scientist from the Massachusetts State College, Dr. Carl Raymond Fellers, and Businessman Harris, now president of Blue Channel Corp., crab-packers...
Blue Channel Corp. has patented its process, is still the only firm in the country packing blue crabs in sealed cans. Its factory at Port Royal, S. C. buys the crabs during the day from sleepy Negro fishermen, packs them before the next dawn-150 cases a night...
...that it can not be shipped very far inland. Until the Fellers discovery, the only domestic crab-meat inland regions could get, was from dungeness (West Coast) crabs, which last year were 95% of the U. S. canned pack of 648,000 pounds. Significant, therefore, is the Blue Channel Corp.'s process, because it offers a new source to satisfy the U. S. appetite for crabmeat, which far exceeds the domestic supply: in 1937 the U. S. imported over 11,000,000 Ibs. of crabmeat (for more than $3,000,000), over 75% of it from Japan...
Today, engines for big ships are produced by only three U. S. factories: Pratt & Whitney (at East Hartford, Conn.) and Wright (at Paterson, N. J.), which produce radial, air-cooled engines, and General Motors Corp.'s Allison Engineering Co. (Indianapolis), which is just getting into production on liquid-cooled inline motors. If there is ever a bottleneck in the production of aircraft for war it will be in the compact engine business, but last week it did not appear close. For Pratt & Whitney and Wright had finished their expansions for wartime business, were operating at no more than...
Belgian-born Dr. George Calingaert (pronounced Kale-in-gert) of Ethyl Gasoline Corp. turned up with a discovery which sounded abstruse to laymen but which his colleagues hailed as "fundamental" and "revolutionary." The discovery: that certain closely related organic compounds will react with one another (i.e., form new compounds) when nudged by simple catalysts (chemical activators) at ordinary temperatures. Up to now chemists have regarded such compounds as indifferent to one another, capable at best of being shotgunned into chemical matrimony by violent stimulants, high temperatures and great pressures. These strongarm methods, even when successful, are wasteful. In the Calingaert...