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There is no more secretive publicly-owned corporation in the U. S. than Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. Stockholders are told that the corporation is prosperous; but they are never given enough facts to enable them to break down the earnings for a real study. Stockholders know that Allied has some $92,000,000 in investments; they have never been told what these investments are. Because Allied deals not with the public but with companies, some reason for its general aloofness is evident-yet no company's products are of greater importance to the public. Because its business is founded...
...Andes. The distant horizon line of the pampas is curved slightly downward at one end. The picture was taken on film made sensitive to red and infra-red rays (not scattered by earth's atmosphere like the shorter wavelengths) by the addition of kryptocyanine, a photo-sensitizing dye...
...last year. Biggest consumers were manufacturers of lacquers, lacquer thinner, solvents (12,583,943 gal.). In the manufacture of nitrocellulose 10,461,860 gal. were used. More than 9,000,000 gal: went into vinegar, more than 7,000,000 gal. into ethyl acetate (necessary for dye-stuffs...
European smokers last week attentively read press despatches announcing that the German dye trust had developed a combustible called bonalin for lighters. Bonalin, said the news, would not smoke, smell or explode. The new fuel comes in a tube, like toothpaste. When squeezed into the lighter it becomes a clear combustible liquid...
...Some Dow products: calcium chloride, used for refrigeration; diethylaniline, used in the dye industry; industrial chloroform, used by dry-cleaners and for medicinal purposes; ethyl chloride, used in antiknock gasoline and to make rubber more flexible; ferric chloride, used in photoengraving; phenol, used in making synthetic resins like Bakelite; acetic anhydride, used in the rayon industry; sodium sulphide, used in tanning; epsom salt; acetyl salicylic acid (aspirin). It also manufactures insecticides, aromatic chemicals, magnesium metal, alloys. ?Chemical Markets Medal awarded by Chemical Markets magazine; Perkin Medal, by Society of Chemical Industry, American Chemical Society, Societe de Chimie Industrielle, American...