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When the doctors have a patient with a gangrenous foot or strangulated hernia (protruding loop of gut), they wheel him into an operating room, inject fluorescein, a reddish dye, into the vein of his arm. Then they darken the room, shine an ultraviolet lamp on the gangrenous area. The dye should make a circuit of the patient's blood stream in 20 seconds. If the gut or foot is still alive and receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation...
...however. Patents on synthetic-rubber processes are no longer holding up the show. Thanks largely to nudges from the Department of Justice, on Dec. 19 all U.S. owners pooled their patents in Rubber Reserve Co.-including Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), whose Buna tire-rubber patents (obtained from the German Dye Trust) are the most promising...
...with their ex-employes. The five: Rudolph Hutz, $80,000-a-year vice president & director;Vice Presidents Hans Aickelin and William vom Rath; F. W. von Meister, manager of the Ozalid division; Leopold Eckler, acting manager of Agfa Ansco. Four worked at one time for I. G. Farben (German Dye Trust); all personified, said Treasury men, Aniline's German origins and ambiguous control...
They also made Aniline's wheels go round. Already harried by Government prying, Aniline protested that now its actual operations would be hampered. Those operations include much vital war work: 90% of the khaki dye for U.S. uniforms, Agfa Ansco films for Army & Navy, Ozalid blueprint paper & apparatus for many a defense plant...
Died. Dr. Thomas Herbert Norton, 90, chemist who studied European chemical industries while he was U.S. consul at Chemnitz, Germany (1906-14), returned home to compile the famed "Dyestuff Census," on which the beginnings of the domestic dye industry were founded during World War I when German dyestuffs were unavailable; in White Plains...