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...March 31, 1937, at Sun Oil's Marcus Hook plant hard by the Delaware River, engineers charged Houdry Unit 11-4 with 15,000 barrels of sloppy residuum after Sun's thermal cracking refiners had squeezed every drop of gasoline they could from the crude. Up went the heat to 900°. Pressure was applied. And as still men and panel men anxiously watched the gauges, the vaporized residuum was forced through the macaroni-shaped catalyst of silica and alumina. When 11-4 had done its work, yield sheets showed that the waste oil had given...
...unknown, but in his long lifetime he gave $530,000,000 to individuals and institutions and even more to his own family (in 1921 John D. Rockefeller Jr. held $410,674,000 in Standard Oil stock alone). Of his devotion to his "duty," his old friend Marcus Alonzo Hanna said: "Sane in every respect but one-he is money mad." The new-minted dimes and nickels he gave away were stuffed into his trouser pockets every morning by his valet, $5 a day. Bestowing them, he always admonished: "Save...
...HERBERT MARCUS...
Spencer Alonze Klaw '41, of Hornell, Peter J. Koeniger '41, Lawrence Lader '41, Martin Lichterman '39, Wallace B. Liverance, Jr. '41, Edward Marcus '39, Paul Melrose '40, Leonard K. Nash '39, Howard McC. Palmer '39, Robert A. Porter '40, Laurence I. Radway '40, Lansing F. Robinson '39, Charles C. Smith '41, Richard S. Suter '41, Louis A. Waters...
...Often there are completely irrelevant skirmishes. John Gunther knew at once that Riza Pahlevi was Shah of Iran. Fadiman: "Are you shah?" Gunther: "Sultanly." Another time, Fadiman asked what four prominent women have the first names Marina, Elzire, Hepzibah, Farida. Marcus Duffield (day news editor of the New York Herald Tribune): "The name Elzire is familiar. ... As a matter of fact, I used to play Indians with her.'' Fadiman: "Well, you must have had a lot of fun. Elzire is Mrs. Dionne...