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Meanwhile, 260 miles west, near the Ohio State line at Edinburg, Pa., it was the Burton Powder Works' (American Cyanamid Co.) turn. A half-ton of dynamite (one of the stablest of explosives) blew up. Dead: the three men within reach of its thunderous punch...
...Going into the gloom of dark cinema houses, people are likely to stumble, bump into others. Ushers with flashlights are nuisances; small lamps placed near the aisle floors illuminate only small areas. American Cyanamid Co. announced what it considers a better idea: aisle rugs treated with fluorescent dyes, bathed by invisible ultraviolet radiation from small tubes. Such rugs glow softly all over, interfere with nothing on the screen. General Electric's House of Magic at the New York World's Fair has a fluorescent aisle...
...deciding vote for a G. O. P. presiding officer. Then he upset the Republicans by switching back to the Democrats, voting with his party on lesser matters. Last week Senator Eroe was upset himself. Out came news that he had: 1) lost his job as a salesman for American Cyanamid & Chemical Corp. which sold dynamite to the State Highways Department last year; 2) already collected and presumably spent his $2,500 salary for the remainder of his Senate term ending next Dec. 1; and 3) applied for and been refused $15 a week unemployment compensation. Said Senator Eroe, appealing...
...lectured against New Deal finance during four years as vice president and director of American Cyanamid Corp., then in December 1937 he resigned to become principal of McGill University in Canada. His administration was successful, but not altogether happy for Lew Douglas. He was too far from the U. S. political-economic scene. Last week he was offered, and promptly accepted, a new job: president of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, effective January 1. As head of the fifth largest insurance company (assets: $1,399,427,496), he will not only be able to use his genius...
Major manufacturers of plastic materials -phenol-formaldehyde, Durez, Plaskon, many another-are Bakelite, General Plastics, American Cyanamid Co., Plaskon Co., Celluloid Corp., Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, Monsanto Chemical and Union Carbide and Carbon.* These manufacturers do no molding, sell their plastics to other companies to be shaped. The molders, in turn-excepting those like Westinghouse and General Electric, which use the products in their own business-sell their finished plastic products to the toothbrush, automobile, radio manufacturers...