Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germans adopted "Blau" gas, a mixture of several gases obtained by cracking petroleum. The gas prepared to take the Graf Zeppelin back to Germany is ethane, extracted from natural gas. It is asserted that ethane is not only cheaper to produce than Blau gas but is a better fuel. Germany, which has little natural gas, cannot produce...
...chemists?the 77th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. To the public, chemistry is chemistry. To initiates there are dozens of kinds of chemistry. All kinds were represented and talked about at Columbus: Organic chemistry and physical chemistry; photochemistry, electrochemistry; medicinal, biological, agricultural and food, cellulose, boiler-room, petroleum chemistry...
Professor James Flack Norris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) told of researches into the possible products from petroleum waste (crude oil after gasoline and other products have been extracted). Fresh attacks upon this problem have already yielded a new alcohol, called isopropyl. The peculiarity of this alcohol is that, unlike all others, it has no exhilarating effect when taken into the human system. If it can be used in industry there will be no temptation for bootleggers to "denature" it and sell it for drink...
...Largest floor transaction of all time was recorded when an unannounced buyer bought a block of 100,000 shares of Simms Petroleum (holding company...
...ammonia, hides, gloves and sulphite pulp in large quantities. Greece and Italy suffered from a decline in tobacco imports, France from decreases in silk and olive oil. The rise in coffee imports assured increased purchases from Brazil, Columbia and Venezuela, the two last also adding to their crude petroleum sales. Chile copper and Chile sodium nitrate accounted for the Chilean gain. Low prices for silk and rubber resulted in smaller purchases from all Oriental countries except India. The ten countries selling the most goods (millions of dollars) to the U. S. in 1928 were: Canada 489.0 Japan 384.3 United Kingdom...