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...Jacob Wertheim Research Fellowship for the Betterment of Industrial Relationships has been awarded by the Corporation for the academic year 1925-26 to Mr. William Haber of Madison, Wisconsin. Mr. Haber is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where he received the John L. Mitchell medal for his thesis on the "United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners...
Since graduation, he has had experience as a labor manager and has prepared several special studies on industrial relations in the clothing industry. Mr. Haber plans to study the labor problem in the building industry in the light of the entire industrial situation in an attempt to discover the conditions in that industry which prevent stabilization and industrial peace. Attention will therefore be given not only to the immediate problems of industrial relations and industrial disputes, but also to the problems of seasonality, restriction of output, and price competition among manufacturers and dealers, and the relation of these problems...
Then in 1914 Fritz Haber, clever German necromancer, found that nitrogen gas can be captured in another way-by combining it with hydrogen to form ammonia. Instead of electricity, the Haber process makes use of an agent called a "catalyst," which is a substance that by its mere presence causes the union of two other elements. Efficient catalysts, or as Dr. E. E. Slosson calls them, the "good mixers" of chemical society, are expensive. Haber used uranium, platinum or some other rare and finely divided metal. When the nitrogen and hydrogen, after being elaborately purified, mixed in proper proportions, compressed...
Chemists of all nations have been seeking to improve the existing methods of nitrogen fixation. Last week the most important discovery since Haber's was announced from the fixed nitrogen research laboratory of the Chemical Warfare Service of the U. S. Army, at Washington, by Dr. Arthur B. Lamb, director of the laboratory, and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. A new catalyst has been found to unite the atoms of nitrogen and hydrogen into the molecule of ammonia. It yields 14% of ammonia, twice the amount given by the Haber process. The nature of the catalyst...
...sent in various directions by cable ways, some of considerable length, to the plants where by-products are recovered and the carbon residue pressed into fuel briquettes. Roughly half of the coal burned in Germany is processed before being used as fuel. On this trip one of the large Haber process plants for fixation of atmospheric nitrogen was seen from the road. It was between half a mile and a mile long and had thirteen chimneys eight of which were showing smoke. There were some stagings around the newer end, but it cannot be said whether construction was going...