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...which can be condensed to a liquid, used in refrigeration, etc., or further transformed by the Ostwald process (another catalytic), into nitric acid. The Haber process was the industrial and agricultural mainstay of Germany in the War. Shut off from her tremendous imports of fertilizers and explosives, her biggest dye-works, the Badische Anilin und Soda-Fabrik, remodeled its plant to manufacture fixed nitrogen and nitrates, and the Central Empires became chemically independent of the rest of the world...
...understood that the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul had pledged $100,000; the Rock Island Lines, $100,000; J. P. Morgan and Co., $500,000; the National City Bank (Manhattan), $500,000; Kuhn, Loeb & Co., $250,000; Henry Ford, U. S. Steel Corp., General Motors, Allied Chemical and Dye, Kennecott Copper, Anaconda Copper, American Radiator, U. S. Rub-ber-all subscribed money, money, more than needed...
...Prosser White, dermatologist to the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in England, has completed a careful study of the way in which eruptions on the skin are caused by poorly 'dyed furs. In the fur business it is necessary to dye fitch to represent sable, goat for bear, muskrat for seal, nutria for beaver, rabbit for seal, beaver, otter, mole, chinchilla or sable, and house cat for skunk or sable. The substance of importance in the process of dying is paraphenylendiamin, which is also the basis of most dyes for human hair that are now on the market. When oxidized this...
...into the blood of mercurochrome-220 soluble and of gentian violet. The results were considered extraordinary since the treatments were used only in severe cases. It was the belief of the observers that the gentian violet had a selective action against infections with staphylococci. The gentian violet is a dye substance and, when injected into the blood, causes the patient immediately to assume a violet color, or to have the appearance of one about to be asphyxiated. The appearance is wholly due to the color of the dye, however, and passes off rapidly...
After lasting more than six months, a suit instituted by the Department of Justice to recover German Dye Patents sold by the Government to the Chemical Foundation, Inc., was settled. The Government lost. Its claim was denied, and the title of the Chemical Foundation to the patents was confirmed...