Word: phenol
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...their aging faces was sagging and wrinkled. When they came out, $3,000 poorer after about three weeks, their faces were usually pink and unnaturally smooth. But last week Cora Galenti's well-paying fountain was turned off by the law. Its source was a bottle of phenol (carbolic acid), which made the treatment both painful and dangerous...
...almost 20 years, Cora Galenti, 64, had got away with it while Hollywood buzzed with talk about famous, but always unnamed, actresses she had rejuvenated. Though doctors suspected that the active ingredient in her lotion was phenol, she kept the formula secret. Put out of business in Los Angeles by court action, Cora simply moved to Las Vegas. There the law finally caught up with her on a mail-fraud technicality...
...open sewer. Game fish bellied up and died; riverfront Manhattan Beach, near Bellevue, Ky., was covered with a foul slime; Louisville's water system doused river water so heavily with chemicals that the citizens howled; on its best days, the river gave off the medicinal odor of phenol poured out of coke ovens. For decades the river cities and towns complained to each other about the mess coming from upstream, contributed to the mess downstream. Then a determined Cincinnati pressagent, rushing in where poets refused to paddle, launched a 25-year cleanup drive that is only now beginning...
With the new plant, Union Carbide opens the door to an infinite variety of new products. From a new abundance of such coal-hydrogenation chemicals as toluene, xylene, napthalene and phenol, predicted Union Carbide's President Morse Dial, will come an endless stream of new medicines and drugs, long-wearing and fireproof fabrics, new paints and detergents, better weed-killers and insecticides...
...Union Carbide is the first to build such a plant as a source of chemicals. After long research, it has succeeded in cutting the hydrogenation process from an hour to a few minutes, reducing the amount of high-cost hydrogen needed and boosting production of such chemicals as phenol (a base for plastics) and aniline (a base for dyestuffs) as much as 500 times the output by previous methods based on coke...