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Director of operations at the Port Hope refining plant is Marcel Pochon, a tall, well-knit Frenchman who once studied under the saintly Pierre Curie. Born in Versailles 48 years ago, Pochon graduated in chemical engineering at the School of Physics and Industrial Chemistry in Paris, studied dyestuff chemistry in Germany, was at War for four years in the French artillery, worked in various laboratories in France and England. In 1932 he joined Eldorado Mines, supervising the transportation and installation of all equipment for the Canadian refining plant. Marcel Pochon speaks fairly good English with a strong accent, wears modish...
...some responsible doctors last week were calling the medical discovery of the decade, were Professors Heinrich Horlein and Gerhard Domagk of the German Dye Trust. Dr. Horlein, director of the Trust's pharmaceutical research at Elberfeld, and Dr. Domagk, a chemotherapist, designed Prontosil's complex molecule of dyestuff. After Dye Trust synthetists made it. Dr. Domagk experimented on mice, found that it did not kill them, that it did cure them of streptococcic infections. Other German doctors tried the material on human beings, began to report success in 1935. Last June two London gynecologists reported encouraging results with...
...vulgar craving for sleep. To Irénée du Pont, vice chairman of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 30,000 years seems a long time to wait for creative evolution to reach this point, and in the course of his remarks on the dyestuff industry he strayed into the future to propose that chemists could and should discover catalytic chemicals that would counteract the muscle poisons which we now have to sleep off. Instead of going to bed for the night, one would have a shot in the arm or a pink pill, change...
...Dyestuff Embargo" will be the subject of a debate which will be held tonight at eight o'clock at the Harvard Club of Boston, 374 Commonwealth avenue. All members of the University are invited to attend the meeting...
...President has been in the sick-bed he has not lost the "common touch." He comes out in favor of a tariff revision that will enable foreign countries to pay off their vast debts to us; at the same time he points out the desirability of fostering our great dyestuff industry that was created during...