Word: monsanto
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...adhesive tape. It also burns nearly all of the remaining wastes in a huge incinerator at Cottage Grove, Minn. "In the past five years, there has been a tremendous change in the attitude of the chemical industry about hazardous waste," says Larry O'Neill, an environmental official with Monsanto Co. in Missouri. "We are now generating less and recycling more." Still, the recovery techniques are just being developed. "When we talk about recovery, we're only talking now about l% of all the material that's generated," claims James Patterson, director of industrial-waste-elimination research at the Illinois Institute...
...protein, which the Harvard team named angiogenin, was isolated from human colon-cancer cells after a decade-long search financed by a grant from Monsanto. What partly slowed the quest was the fact that the protein is found in the body in only minuscule quantities. Even so, says Team Member James Riordan, angiogenin is so potent that it can induce blood vessels to form when it is present in tissue as only one part per quadrillion...
Union Carbide's long-term woes stem partly from its slowness to adjust to a slump in the chemicals business, particularly in petroleum-based products. The company's financial performance has lagged behind such rivals as Du Pont and Monsanto for the past several years. To perk up profits, Union Carbide is expected to put less emphasis on petrochemicals so that it can concentrate on its more successful business lines, including industrial gases (nitrogen, argon, oxygen) and consumer products (Eveready batteries, Glad bags, Prestone antifreeze...
...Monsanto Co. of St. Louis, for example, has come up with more than $143,000 in office equipment, laboratory gear and other products. Allied Van Lines has donated haulage of 40 shipments of materials from Monsanto and other companies to schools like John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Ark. So far Roskam has wheeled and dealed in 21 states to produce 200 scholarships. One recipient...
...freighter anchored in the harbor of this port town on Galveston Bay. The Grand Camp carried 1,400 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. At 8 the next morning, the Grand Camp exploded in a blast that rattled windows 150 miles away. Flames leaped 700 ft. to a nearby Monsanto plant that produced styrene, a combustible ingredient of synthetic rubber. Minutes later the Monsanto plant exploded, setting off fires throughout the city. On April 17 the freighter High Flyer, also loaded with nitrates, exploded in the harbor. The toll: 576 dead, 2,000 seriously injured...