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Kathryn Miles, a Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) research fellow, suffered from a respiratory infection for two weeks last summer, after prolonged exposure to the solvent toluol. The solvent "did some real toxic damage," she said...
...said Robert T. Haslam, vice president, this week. He said that Standard had had "an agreement to purchase a large number of Farben's American patents for $35,000,000, plus turning over to them some of our patents. Those patents we purchased gave the U.S. synthetic toluol for TNT . . . 100 octane gasoline . . . buna rubber." The Dow Chemical Co.'s Willard H. Dow denied the cartel charge saying: "Those things have been very much distorted...
...record, in a battle of economies uncharted in previous U.S. history, was brilliant. His first job was to provide raw materials. With a speculator's foresight, he bought up a supply of toluol (for TNT) before the Army was fully aware of its importance. By adroit bluffing, he got the Chilean Government to help knock the price of nitrates from 7½? to 4⅛? a lb. He got jute from India at his price by threatening to withhold the silver shipments that stabilized India's rupee. He got iron ore from Sweden, wangled mules from Spain...
...Synthetic toluol, basic ingredient of trinitrotoluol (T.N.T.), basic military explosive. Without synthetic production, available T.N.T. would be only half as much...
...from coal, was used in the U.S., by Standard and its licensees, to create the world's greatest supply of 100-octane aviation gas. A variation of the same process is now used by Humble Oil in a new plant which makes 30,000,000 gallons of synthetic toluol a year for TNT. The cartel also gave the U.S. its buna knowledge, except the process for making rubber from coal, a Nazi Government-sponsored program...