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...Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases is sponsoring a project to manufacture about one gram (1/30 of an oz.) of radioactive cortisone. The Institute will put up $66,000 for Montreal's Charles E. Frosst & Co. to do the tricky manufacturing job of building cortisone with an atom of radioactive carbon-14 in Ring A of the molecule. As many as a hundred research outfits may get the stuff; one gram will be enough for 100,000 tracer doses. ¶ The shortage of nurses would not be half so bad if hospitals would stop using nurses for orderly jobs, said Marian...
...different in another way. Built and operated by the huge Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., it is the only commercial plant in the world that uses coal as a direct raw material for producing chemicals. By means of hydrogenation, a method of pulverizing coal and combining it with hydrogen under extreme pressure, it produces cheap hydrocarbons...
...year except 1951's alltime record; afterward, they were the lowest of any year since 1946's marginal, reconversion-battered first quarter. Some of the typical casualties: General Motors' net off 10%, U.S. Steel's 10%, Du Font's 15%, Union Carbide & Carbon's 20%, U.S. Rubber's 30%, topped by Libbey-Owens-Ford...
Chemicals. Union Carbide & Carbon's sales rose $6,000,000, but its net fell 20% (to $23 million). Du Pont's sales were up $2,000,000 and the net was "substantially" off. Said President Crawford H. Greenewalt: "The seller's market . . . is ... a thing of the past. .. The slump in textiles affects Du Pont most seriously...
...Morse G. (for Grant) Dial, 56, was boosted from executive vice president to president of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. Fred H. Haggerson, 68, who was both president and chairman, will continue as board chairman. Reared in Fargo, N. Dak., Dial graduated from Cornell, worked for the Brownville Board Co. before joining Union Carbide in 1929 as a sales supervisor. Later, as manager of the Vinylite divisions, he helped make Union Carbide the world's largest producer of plastics...