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Standard's new catalytic cracking plant was dedicated last week with bunting, a band and speeches in Standard's vast and drafty old boiler shop at Bayway, N.J. Even as Standard's new president, Ralph W. Gallagher, spoke, the six-million-dollar "cat cracker" was running full blast, spewing forth a censored quantity of the basic ingredients for high-octane gasoline, TNT and synthetic rubber...
Powder That Pours. Standard's "cat cracker" improves on previous catalytic cracking. It functions with a minimum of moving parts (only pumps and blowers), manpower (eight men)-and without pause. In the past various catalysts*-usually porous, claylike materials-have been used to help break up the complex hydrocarbon compounds and recombine them into more usable form. Catalytic cracking, with various catalysts and conditions of use, can be controlled to a far greater degree than the older thermal cracking, in which reactions are produced by high temperatures and pressure. But coke (carbon) is by the nature of the reaction...
...Chicago's least-known citizens is short, silver-haired Charles Arthur Tilt, 65, who lives in a swanky Gold Coast apartment, is an expert yachtsman, golfer and skeetshooter, is the owner of a cannon-cracker temper. He is also founder, mainspring and president of smart Diamond T Motor Car Co., which last week estimated its 1942 sales 125% over last year to a record $100,000,000. Diamond T had just announced nine months' profits up 45% to $1,063,000-quite a contrast to the 34% drop in the combined profits of competitors, Mack Trucks and Yellow...
...present excitement in Britain over Sir William Beveridge's monumental report on social security. When the war began, Laborites were admitted to a Coalition Cabinet on condition that they refrain from raising "controversial" issues until after the war. Sir William, to put it mildly, has scattered many a cracker-crumb into the couch of Britain's political bedfellows. His ideas have won such widespread support that the Labor Party has decided to fight here and now for Parliamentary enactment of the new proposals...
...hung on the wall stating: "Thomas Jefferson Cowie, Rear Admiral Supply Corps, U. S. Navy. At his insistence, the first attempts to serve a healthily balanced ration in the Navy were made in in 1882 on board the U. S. S. New Hampshire. He banished 'salt horse and cracker bash' from the high seas...