Word: cyanamid
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...decade of debate, which was between men who thought the Government should keep and run Muscle Shoals to benefit farmers and men who thought the Government should sell or lease the project to a private operator. Among the bidders for Muscle Shoals have been Henry Ford, the American Cyanamid Co., the Union Carbide Co., Elon H. Hooker, the Underwood Power Co., the Consolidated Power Co., the Air Nitrates Corp., the Muscle Shoals Fertilizer Co., the Alabama Power...
...Walter S. Landis spoke for the American Cyanamid Co.; and Professor Harry Alfred Curtis of Yale listened in behalf of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. All the great Scandinavian chemical sel-skabs were well represented, as were Italian firms, and from France came the learned Professor L. Bretangnière most hospitable and informatively loquacious was famed Herr Doktor J. Bueb of the "I. G." Herr Doktor Bueb suggested complacently that it is a duty of governments to abolish all tariffs or taxes on nitrogen fertilizers and to secure their transport at preferential freight rates, because the more nitrate...
...also authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to use Muscle Shoals electricity in making nitrates for fertilizer, but the wording of the resolution reflected an opinion that synthetic fertilizer processes are too costly. In the House, contrarily, a committee was discussing a bill to lease Muscle Shoals to the American Cyanamid Co. Senator Norris attacked this bill from afar, warning that it was but a maneuver to put Muscle Shoals in the hands of power pirates. "You cannot make fertilizer cheap by passing a law and saying that fertilizer shall be cheap," cried Senator Norris...