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This was the story told in Philadelphia last week by John Nichols to Workmen's Compensation Referee John Alessandroni. The hearing climaxed a series of State and medical investigations of carbon disulfide poisoning in the rayon industry, brought to public attention a picture of industrial disease as lurid as the 1936 silicosis and radium poison scandals. Referee Alessandroni decided in favor of John Nichols, but Nichols got no money, for the new Pennsylvania occupational disease law did not go into effect until Jan. 1, 1938-one day after he left...
Present at the hearing were famed Philadelphia Toxicologists Max Trumper and Samuel Tobias Gordy, authors of the first comprehensive medical report of carbon disulfide poisoning ever printed in the U. S. Throughout the country, they said, there are 19 rayon companies which use carbon disulfide. Some of them, like Du Pont at Wilmington, Del., take special pains to guard their employes from poisonous C52 fumes. American Viscose Co. cut down the hazard with a new ventilating system designed by Philip Drinker of Harvard. But hundreds of workers throughout the U. S. have been permanently disabled...
Yellowish carbon disulfide, with its radish-like stink, is a man-made chemical used to dissolve fats. In the rayon industry it is poured into huge churns to dissolve cotton or wood pulp before the cellulose solution is spun into threads. From the churns rise foul C52 fumes...
...outdone, Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. announced that its "elastic Vinylite" (vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate resins) was being made into chemically inert beer pipes, men's shoes, babies' diapers, bedroom slippers, shower curtains, aprons, waterproof sheeting, women's hats, chair covers, card-table covers, insulation...
Carburization turns a soft iron wire into steel in one minute. The wire is heated in a hydrogen atmosphere to prevent oxidation. The hydrogen, bubbling through alcohol, picks up alcohol vapor. This vapor contains carbon, which inter acts with the hot iron to make it steel. The Westinghouse people devised this exhibit to show the new importance of controlled atmospheres in hardening commercial steel parts...