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...trademarked by Kinetic Chemicals Inc. as "Freon-12," and is the nontoxic, noninflammable gas that is the freezing agent in practically all electric refrigerators and air-conditioning machinery. Early this year the U.S. Army made tests, found that Freon was not only the nation's No. 1 refrigerant but also a No. 1 killer of tropical insects...
During the past two months the Carney's Point, NJ. plant of Kinetic Chemicals (a joint General Motors-Du Pont subsidiary) bloomed with a 20% expansion. But the Army kept asking for more, and still more Freon. WPB tightened up. Kinetic now has under way another 75% plant expansion. But for the next six months, at least, civilians who want Freon for "comfort cooling" will do without. Notable victims: Price Boss Prentiss Brown, Congressman Sol Bloom, whose office air conditioning was cut off fortnight ago when the Freon leaked...
...Freon in the Pantry. In 1929 the only refrigerants in use were compounds which might possibly poison a housewife or blow up in a refrigerator owner's face. Brooding on refrigeration's future, General Motors appeals to big, famed Thomas Midgley Jr., vice president of Ethyl Corp., creator of ethyl...
General Motors called on Du Pont to devise a cheap, quick method of manufacture. Kinetic Chemicals was set up in 1931, with Frigidaire the one & only customer. Gradually, other manufacturers began to eye Freon respectfully, began to design their machinery accordingly. By the time WPB called a halt on electric refrigerators early last year, all but two U.S. refrigerator makers were using Freon...