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...thin needle, 1¼ inches long, which he passed through a tiny opening in the air-sac end of the egg. After he withdrew the needle, he sealed the hole with paraffin. In three or four days he removed the infected yolks, dried and ground them, diluted them in salt water, produced a remarkably virulent suspension of Rickettsiae, which lost none of its power when passed through ten series of eggs. "The technique," said Bacteriologist Cox, "is very simple, and permits a minimum of contamination." The simplicity of this operation should permit him to make thousands of doses of typhus...
From vast, subterranean Michigan streams Dow Chemical Co. pumps brackish water, produces aspirin, phenol, ammonia, chlorine. From the vast Pacific, Great Western Electro-Chemical Co. dredges salt, manufactures liquid chlorine, caustic soda, caustic potash. In a corporate chemical reaction last month these two companies decided to combine. Last week their stockholders approved the process. Catalyst of the consolidation was Willard Henry Dow, elder son of the late, great Chemist Herbert Henry Dow. No chemical genius but an efficient business executive, Willard Dow graduated from University of Michigan in 1919, went to work for his father as a department head, succeeded...
Although Dow Chemical has branches elsewhere, the root of its business is still in Midland, Mich., where in 1890 Founder Herbert Dow, two years out of Case School of Applied Science, first set up shop. There plumbing 1,200 feet to a huge salt pool, he began refining the brine into everything from patented laxatives to synthetic indigo dyes...
Midland's brine deposits have brought stockholders dividends as regularly as Epsom salt brings relief. Last year (ending May 31, 1938) the company netted $3,895,269, approximate average for 1934-38. Never before in a merger, Dow has a good reason for this one: it wants a West Coast branch,* and Great Western offers that as well as exclusive rights to cheap processes of making chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, hexachloroethane...
...provide food for the new land, fields of poppies were ploughed under and sown to rice. For raw materials engineers scoured the back country, opened up veins of coal, iron, copper, salt, many small oil wells...