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...price of the average new car by 10% or more -but that is not the most immediate problem. The key antipollution device is the "catalytic converter" that burns up hydrocarbons in the exhaust. The trouble is that the converter is eventually gummed up and rendered useless by the tetraethyl lead in present-day gasolines...
...picture. While U.S. chimneys belch 100,000 tons of sulfur dioxide every day, 90 million motor vehicles add 230,000 tons of carbon monoxide (52% of smog) and other lethal gases, which then form ozone and peroxyacetyl nitrate that kill or stunt many plants, ranging from orchids to oranges. Tetraethyl lead in auto exhausts affects human nerves, increasing irritability and decreasing normal brain function. Like any metal poison, lead is fatal if enough is ingested. In the auto's 70-year history, the average American's lead content has risen an estimated 125-fold, to near maximum tolerance...
...history, a company that has spent apparently reckless millions on apparently useless laboratory research, and seen it pay off. Most of Du Pont's current products are things that never existed on land or sea until Du Pont research discovered or developed them: cellophane, nylon, Lucite and neoprene, tetraethyl (antiknock) lead for gasoline, Dacron and plastics. The latest product (not mentioned in the book) is known as Corfam, a scuff-resistant, water-repellent synthetic leather (TIME, April 3) that may in time revolutionize the shoe industry...
...date. From natural gas, the plant each year will pour out 20% of the nation's supply of synthetic alcohol, used in hundreds of products ranging from synthetic rubber and explosives to photographic film and DDT; 200 million lbs. of ethylene; 50 million Ibs. of ethyl chloride, for tetraethyl lead in high-octane aviation gasoline; 140,000 tons of sulphuric acid. In addition, Tuscola will soon have a $7,000,000 ammonia plant and a $14.5 million plant for producing polyethylene, the tough, flexible plastic that goes into squeeze bottles, poker chips, etc. (TIME...
...Font's interest in tetraethyl, Alfred Sloan testified that it was G.M.'s Charles F. Kettering who suggested that rather than build a plant for making an antiknock component itself, G.M. should go into business with Du Pont, because "they were the best chemists in the country." From the 43 defense witnesses and two Government witnesses, onetime U.S. Rubber President F. B. Davis and Lawrence Fisher (Fisher Body), the Government was able to draw little evidence that a conspiracy to create or capitalize on "captive markets" had ever existed. At one point, U.S. Rubber President H. E. Humphreys...