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...Leaf-killing dust. A prime drawback in mechanical picking is that leaves get collected along with the cotton. To get cleaner cotton, the Hopson plantation, before harvesting, defoliated the plants with cyanamid dust dropped from a plane...
...Since it is largely the similar acid properties of the sulfa-drugs and the bacterial vitamins which confuse the bacteria, Chemists Richard O. Roblin Jr. and Paul H. Bell (of the sulfa-making American Cyanamid Co.) have developed a method of measuring the acidity of the several hundred possible sulfa-compounds and thus 'predicting their efficacy. But such predictions are complicated by other factors: some sulfa-drugs are not absorbed by the body and thus never reach the blood stream; others undergo chemical changes in the body and thus lose their powers...
...Prize (1939) for his work with prontosil (forerunner of sulfanilamide). In 1939 Dr. Benjamin Frank Miller of the University of Chicago was looking for an agent which would carry germicides into every nook & cranny of the teeth. Paging through LIFE one day, he ran across a picture of American Cyanamid's famous ducks being scuttled with its "Aerosol" wetting agent. Miller tried the same product on teeth, found that it penetrated everywhere with a germicide. Then he discovered that synthetic wetting agents themselves were also powerful germicides...
General Aniline is a desirable property. It is the second largest U.S. manufacturer of photographic equipment (after Eastman), and is tied for third place with American Cyanamid (after Allied Chemical and Du Pont) in the making of dye-stuffs. Its earnings-$4,106,000 last year -are bolstered with defense business; among other things it is the largest U.S. producer of khaki dyes...
...Dies. Last week he announced that he and his committee had compiled a fat tome on sabotage agents, intimated that shortly he would release it to press and public. It may need fast editing to be up to date. Tin's week, the main building of the American Cyanamid plant at Bridgeville, Pa. was wrecked by an explosion; the tiny plant of Pennsylvania Chemical Corp. at Johns town was destroyed by fire...