Word: stolzenberg
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Official investigators sent by Minister of Commerce Dr. Julius Curtius reported in substance: "An accident." One Herr Hugo Stolzenberg owned the gas and was only a trifle vague as to where he got it. He has more, several additional cylinders. Correspondents were of the opinion that some of the cylinders contained leftover German War gas stock, and thought that others might have come from the phosgene plant set up by German technicians in Russia at the request of the Soviet Government...
...East 17th street, Manhattan, President Bernard R. Armour of the Heyden Chemical Corp. said that over a year ago he bought some phosgene from Herr Stolzenberg. "We have only about 500 pounds of the gas on hand at a time," said Mr. Armour, explaining that from phosgene are manufactured certain pharmaceutical products, such as potassium guaiacol carbonate. "We keep our gas in 50-pound containers in Fords, some distance from Perth Amboy, N. J. The building is in the centre of an open field and carefully guarded. There is very little danger...
...Berlin the German War Ministry would make absolutely no statement, and a few Paris journals clamored for a League of Nations investigation to determine whether Germany is making more phosgene for commercial purposes than is permitted by the Allies. At Hamburg no action was taken, last week, against Herr Stolzenberg, whom officials seemed to think had a proper title to his gas wherever he got it. It would have been, they said, perfectly legal for him to buy leftover Army phosgene. With apparent sincerity Big Gas Man Stolzenberg declared that he would cooperate with the experts in destroying or neutralizing...