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Polectron, Promika. Bob McConnell's new scientists had one big advantage over all the other men in the U.S. struggling with the same problem: they had Ani line's bulky file of German experiments on synthetic mica. With the aid of this know-how, last summer they came up with Polectron - a resin made from plentiful materials including coal, tar, water and limestone. General Electric tested Polectron for a while, at length evolved from it a finished mica substitute which it named Promika...
...Promika has not yet successfully supplanted mica except for most types of radio condensers. But with literally billions of those needed for radar, walkie-talkies, inter-communicators, etc., this is a huge step forward. Natural mica "fails" at lower temperatures than Promika. Moreover, 1 lb. of Polectron replaces 10-15 lb. of natural block mica (on which rejects and wastage are very high), thus costs less than Indian mica...
Last week, while Bob McConnell was beaming over Polectron and Promika, politics-an old Aniline bugbear-rose up to plague him. His principal stockholder was scouting around for a new board of directors. The stockholder: Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley, who owns 97% of Aniline. Talk was that the new board chairman would be Manhattan's razor-smart Victor Emanuel, a director of Standard Gas & Electric, of which versatile Leo Crowley is board chairman...
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