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...symbolizing this momentous change, which may affect U.S. industry long after World War II is over, the Society of Chemical Industry gave its top award, the Perkin Medal, not to a leader of an established chemical firm like Carbide, Monsanto or Du Pont, but to Dr. Robert Erastus Wilson, head of Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co., a subsidiary of Standard...
...Octane Stratosphere. This month U.S. oil companies, greased by a promise of some $150,000,000 from the RFC, are moving fast to triple their 1,818,000-gallon-a-day capacity for 100 octane gas. As late as last May 0PM's Petroleum Consultant, Dr. Robert Erastus Wilson, thought the oil industry "with its genius for overbuilding" could produce "twice the present domestic and foreign demand," though at a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers he advised "a 25% expansion in 100 octane capacity" to be on the safe side. But that was before Britain began bombing...
...Robert Erastus Wilson, balding, science-wise president of Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co.. holder of 88 chemical and engineering patents. Meanwhile, in the production side of the commission, hulking William S. Knudsen, on leave from the presidency of General Motors, has also reached into business...
...Beecher started Northerners talking about spirituals and about Fisk-the School for freedmen which a Union General, Clinton Bowen Fisk, a Union Chaplain, Erastus Milo Cravath, and a Union schoolteacher, one John Ogden, established after the War in the Union Barracks at Nashville. Erastus Cravath, its first president and father of famed Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan Opera's Board Chairman, took the Jubilee Singers abroad after their New York success, to Stockholm where they gave 52 concerts in a single season, to England where Queen Victoria was a disappointment to them because she received them...
Dime novels were inaugurated by Manhattan Publishers Erastus & Irwin Beadle who sold the first five million between 1860-64. Who dared say that lordly persons were above them? There was Senator Zachariah Chandler of Michigan who emphatically admitted that Beadle's Oonomoo the Huron fascinated him. The man who disliked it, opined the Senator, was unfit to live. In the Civil War the same novels did much to incite soldiers on both sides to deeds of astonishing gallantry. There were, indeed, four phases of the dime novel and its follower, the Nickel Library: 1) innocent stories of the American...