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...flourished. In 1929 exports of chemicals exceeded $200,000,000, up $25,000,000 from 1928. In sales and profits U. S. chemical companies lead the world. More than half the U. S. business is done by its three biggest companies: du Pont, Allied Chemical & Dye, Union Carbide & Carbon. Excluding du Pont's investment in General Motors, the total assets of these three come to $585,718,000-or nearly twice the size of the Garvan-feared I. G. Farben-industrie...
Last week noncareer diplomatic appointments went definitely into the lead when President Hoover nominated John Motley Morehead, Mayor of Rye, N. Y., electrical engineer with the Union Carbon & Carbide Co., to be Minister to Sweden; and Henry Wharton Shoemaker, publisher of the Altoona (Pa.) Times Tribune, to be Minister to Bulgaria...
Temperate traffic policemen who grow dizzy on duty know that they are not drunk, but are mildly poisoned by carbon monoxide puffing invisibly from motor vehicle exhausts.- Carbon monoxide's first effects are like those of alcohol. Heavy concentrations of the gas, as in closed garages, kill quickly, painlessly. Carbon monoxide (CO) is the result of incomplete combustion. Complete fuel burning would give carbon dioxide (C02), a gas ordinarily harmless to animals.† But no motor is 100% efficient with its gasoline. Some CO always escapes, dangerously. For him who invents a way of making such CO harmless awaits...
...Because they knew that mild carbon monoxide poisoning simulates alcoholic intoxication two eminent Englishmen, John Scott Haldane, 69, honorary professor and director of Birmingham University Mining Research Laboratory, and Leonard Erskine Hill, 63, famed physiologist, recently saved a hapless Englishman from gaol. The fellow and two friends had drunk some beer before he took them for a ride in his closed motor car. The car bogged in a pool of water. Trying to pull out, he raced his motor for about 15 minutes, when he became drowsy. A constable came along to scold. He smelled the driver's sour...
Stiff-faced and stoical was a crowd clustered about the entrance of the Old Town Coal Company's mine at McAlester, Okla. last week. Out of the mine were carried 60 bodies. Three were unconscious, overcome by afterdamp (carbon monoxide) which had followed a muffled explosion below. The rest, wrapped in burlap to conceal the charred mutilation or gas-choked contortions of their faces, were dead. Of them, 34 were Mexicans, 15 were Negroes. The bodies were exhibited in improvised morgues. Many were unidentifiable. One was identified by a broken...