Word: dyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...that which the annual report of his company demands. In 1916 he left his position as executive vice president of sickly Maxwell Motors to enter the chemical field, in which his good friend Eugene Meyer had large investments. In 1920 he reluctantly assumed presidency of the new Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. He ran it with a harsh discipline. His phenomenal success in creating for the U. S. a chemical company greater than any to be found in Europe is one of the supremely important industrial achievements of the decade. Lately it has been known that he has thought of retiring...
...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...