Word: dyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...present air conditioning is expensive unless a whole building is equipped when first built. Some tycoons, however, have the air in their offices conditioned (Orlando Franklin Weber, president of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., is a stout booster for "manufactured weather") and the cost is within the reach of homeowners. Ambition of the air-conditioners is "to make a building not cooled in summer as obsolete as one not heated in winter...
Allied Chemical & Dye...
...shoes, hats, pocketbooks. These gentlemen simply "get together" and agree that one season's cerise shall be supplanted by green, purple or "Mrs. Harding blue." They agree that a certain proportion, say 65%!, of each gentleman's production shall be in the agreed new color. That saves money in dye-buying. And each different product helps the rest to sell, since "ensembles" must be thoroughgoing. The U. S. gentlemen politely notify the Paris arbiters of their decision by sending over generous "samples," which the thrifty Parisians can easily sell for cash. In return, the Paris arbiters recommend the new color...
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