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Despatches from Pottsville, Pa., indicate that another anthracite company is experimenting with a dye to make its coal pink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Coal, Pink Coal | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Allied Chem & Dye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Stock Market Break | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Died. William Henry Nichols Jr., 54, president of the General Chemical Co., and vice president of the Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. (of which his father, 75, is chairman of the board) ; of pneumonia; at Oyster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 4, 1928 | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

That the world may see streaks of light through the long hours of darkness, Orange, N. J., women hired themselves to the U. S. Radium Corporation. Daily they took up watch dials and painted the blind numerals with a magic dye which made them glow at night. The company paid a high price for the paint. When a few drops were left in the glass after the brushes were twirled and pointed, supervisors complained. The girls were taught to point and clean the brushes with their lips. Thirteen died. Last week the U. S. Radium Corporation was defendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poison Paintbrush | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Birch into Mahogany. Many American hardwood trees have no particular commercial value. Herr Fritz von Behr, pioneer tree surgeon of Germany, is working with dye pot and surgical instruments on beeches, birches, maples in Maine to make them eligible for future furniture. He selects sound young trees, makes a pattern of holes in the trunks and roots, injects 75 to 100 gallons of a secret soluble aniline dye. For four days the tree sucks up the dye. On the third day afterward the leaves begin to turn pink, violet, blue, red; the wood becomes tinted. After two weeks the leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Devices | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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