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...most promising of President Vargas' three sons. Graduate of Brazil's Escola Nacional de Chymica, he spent four years at Johns Hopkins University as a student of chemical engineering. When stricken last week, popular, modest young Getulio was working in São Paulo's Nitro Chymica chemical-manufacturing company. His father and mother rushed to his bedside. Four days after the diagnosis of infantile paralysis President Vargas left for a conference at Natal. From his good friend Franklin D. Roosevelt he could expect deep sympathy and an inspiring example of recovery from the dread illness which...
Last week in Washington the War Department grabbed time by the forelock, signed a $16,075,000 order for smokeless powder to be turned out by Hercules Powder Co. (operators of the famed Charleston, W. Va. nitro plant of 1918) from a mill still to be built near Radford, Va. Only the week before the Army had signed a $25,000,000 contract with Hercules to put up the plant and operate it on a cost-plus basis. It was the second construction contract to be let in 1940's defense emergency for a powder mill to be operated...
Just before the heavy weather of the post-War depression, Drugman Queeny put out a sea anchor in Britain by buying a half interest in a Welsh concern making phenol (pure carbolic acid). In 1929 Monsanto absorbed Rubber Service Laboratories with a plant in Nitro, W. Va. for producing chemicals used in rubber processing. Same year Monsanto acquired the Buffalo, N. Y. plant of Mathieson Alkali Works and Merrimac Chemical Co. at Everett, Mass., oldest and largest New England manufacturer of heavy chemicals for the textile, paper and tanning industries. Monsanto has lost money in only three years since...
...process is a simple one. First the fossil area in the rock is polished with an abrasive wheel. The area is then treated with acid, and coated with a special nitro-cellulose solution. When this has dried, forming a tough film, it is 'peeled' off and retains a carbonized impression of every detail. It is estimated that 500 specimens can be made from a fossil an inch thick. The specimens can be made very cheaply and are indestructible under ordinary handling...
...stranger to Lehigh, President-Elect Williams has known some of the older faculty members since he worked for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad 25 years ago. A graduate of Southern Iowa Normal School, he turned to teaching before the War, quit to supervise a government explosives plant at Nitro, Va. At University of Illinois, where he was head of the Engineering department from 1922 to 1926, he built one of the best hydraulic laboratories in the U. S. During his Iowa deanship, he built a television station. Twice married, he likes to hike with his three children, teaches a Sunday...