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...given the chance. Though the Socialist union published a formal statement several days earlier offering full co-operation with the Government, important young Storm Troopers raided their headquarters throughout the Reich and marched 50 union leaders off to jail. Up popped Dr. Robert Ley, former chemist of the German dye trust and new Nazi chairman of the Committee of Action for the Protection of German Labor. "We are not to be fooled by Socialist foxy tricks," said he. "With the disappearance of the Socialist unions, the Social Democratic party will be permanently deprived of the soil in which it lived...
Last week a stockholder rose in meeting as stockholders do in Depression. The stockholder was James Watson Gerard. Wartime Ambassador to Germany. The meeting was the annual meeting of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. What Mr. Gerard wanted to know was the market value of $92,400,000 of "U. S. Government and other marketable securities" carried as assets by the company...
...that U. S. producers of synthetic nitrates would receive a 10,000-ton order as their quota for the first quarter of 1933. With 50,000 tons already shipped in the first half of the fiscal year, U. S. producers (of whom the greatest by far is Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.) point with pride to the French orders as the largest ever exported by the U. S. to one country...
...were invited to have their liquor tested free of charge. The invitation came from Dr. Jacob Casson Geiger, the bald, beak-nosed Director of Public Health at whose request a survey of poison cases was later made which resulted in the successful use last fortnight of methylene blue, a dye common in the textile industry, as antidote for cyanide of potassium (TIME...
Methylene blue is a common dye in the textile industry. Biologists use it to stain various microbes. Physicians find the substance useful in malaria, neuralgia and urogenital infections. Dr. Millzner's use of methylene blue followed first aid instructions prepared this autumn by Pharmacologists Paul John Hanzlik (Stanford University) & Chauncey Depew Leake (University of California). Cyanides poison the body cells, make them incapable of taking life-essential oxygen from the blood. In some unknown way methylene blue detoxifies the cells, enables them to breathe again...