MEETINGS AND PROGRAMS
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MEETINGS AN A S S O C I A T I O N S
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Top Administration Leaders On CMRA-ACS Program
Top-level officials of the new Administration will take a prominent part in a special joint meeting of the Chemical Market Research Association and ACS Division of Chemical Market ing and Economics, to be held in Washington, Nov. 18 to 19.
Panel discussions have been arranged for a number of current topics to allow a free interchange of ideas between government officials and members of the chemical industry. Panel discussions will deal especially with government services to business and industry in the form of economic and statistical data.
Marion B. Folsom, Under Secretary of the Treasury; Carl V. Oechsle, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Domestic Affairs; and William C. Foster , president, Manufacturing Chemists ' Association, will address t he group at its banque t and luncheon sessions.
Some of the Government 's top officiais and their aides will preside at various panels. Panel subjects include business services of the Commerce Depar tment , business statistics and economic indicators, minerals for the chemical industry, foreign t rade and investment, agricultural economics and their chemical implications, monetary and tax policies and programs, statistics as a guide to industry planning and operations, and government-aided industrial expansion programs.
Because of th.e broad scope of the program, its sponsors are inviting nonmem-bers to at tend. Further details may be obtained from conference chairmen, James M. Crowe, Executive Editor , A M E R I C A N C H E M I C A L SOCIETY, 1155 Sixteenth St., N.W., Washington 6, D. C , or Wilbur F. Sterling, Corn Products Refining Co., 17 Battery Place, New York 4, Ν. Υ.
20 Divisions of ACS to Meet a t Kansas Ci ty
The schedule of divisional meetings at Kansas City next spring has been announced by the ACS. The first part of the meeting, to be March 24 to 27, will consist of three and a half days, or seven half-day sessions, during which the folio-wing divisions will present programs: Agricultural and Food; Biological; Chemical Marketing and Economics; Industrial and Engineering; Medicinal; Organic; Paint, Plastics, and Printing Ink; and Water , Sewage, and Sanitation.
The second part of the meeting, March 29 to April 1, will include sessions lasting four days, or through eight half-day sessions. T h e following divisions will present papers : Analytical, Carbohydrate , Cellulose, Chemical Educat ion, Chemical Literature, Colloid, Gas and Fuel, History, Petroleum, Physical and Inorganic, and
Polymer. The Divisions of Rubber Chemistry and of Fertilizer and Soil Chemistry are not mee t ing in Kansas City.
Drug Immunity Symposium Organized by ONR
A Symposium on the Origins of Resistance to Drugs is being organized b y the
Office of Naval Research and the University of Pennsylvania, to take place March 25 to 27, 1954, in Washington , D. C. It will consist or five successive sessions, each devoted to one of t h e following group of topics: ( 1) The Origins of Microbial Drug Resistance; ( 2 ) TV t rance and Addiction to Drugs, and Alcoholism; (3 ) Resistance to Insecticides, Herbicides; ( 4 ) Factors in Resistance to Infections Agents; Biochemical Mechanism of Carcinogenesis and T h e Nature of T u m o r Immunity , and ( 5 ) the concluding session, devoted to the integration of the quest ions of resistance from
ACS Local Sections P L A C E
New York ( Metropolitan Long Island Subsection), Lecture Hall, Adelphi College, Garden City, Ν. Υ.
North Jersey, Essex House, Newark N. J.
Analytical Group Industrial and Engineering
Group Organic Discussion Group
Polymer Group
Virginia, Cobb Chemical Laboratory, Charlottesville
Wichita, Science Hall, University of Wichita
Other Local Groups American Insti tute of Chemists,
New York Chapter , Stouffer's Restaurant, 540 Fifth Ave.
O C T . SPEAKJER
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Melvixi C. Mello E. W - Coming·» J. S. Fru ton
G. W - King:
R. E. Gibson
J. O. MaIo>ne>
22 Walter Smith
SUBJECT
Recent Work on Molecular Structure b y Infrared Spectroscopy
Chemical Writing Experimental Techniques at High
Pressure Enzymatic Synthesis of Peptide
Bonds Monte Carlo, Digital Computers
and Polymers Science, Art, and Education
The Application of Carbon 14 to the Study of Diffusionaî Operations
Tiie Missing Lambda Constant
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MEETINGS AND PROGRAMS
the genetic, physiological and chemical points of view. The papers by the invited speakers will be followed by open discussion from the audience. Those who are interested in attending the symposium are invited to write early for information and reservations to: M. G. Sevag, Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 4, Pa.
C I C Schedules Next Year's Meetings
The Chemical Institute of Canada has scheduled the following meetings:
Nov. 19-20, 1953: 5th Canadian High Polymer Forum, London Library and Museum, London, Ont. (sponsored jointly by the CIC and the National Research Council of Canada).
Feb. 18-19, 1954: 6th Lnvisionai conference, Analytical Chemistry Division, Royal Hotel, Guelph, Ont.
Feb. 25, 1954: 8th Divisional Conference, Protective Coatings Division. Montreal, Que.
Feb. 26, 1954: 8th Divisional Conference, Protective Coatings Division, Toronto, Ont.
March 1-2, 1954: 3rd Divisional Conference, Chemical Engineering Division, Montreal, Que.
June 2 1 - 2 3 , 1954: 37th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Ont.
Sept. 10-11 , 1954: 2nd Western Regional Conference, Vancouver, B.C.
American Oil Chemists to Meet in Chicago
The American Oil Chemists' Society will hold its annual fall meeting in Chicago Nov. 2 to 4. The full program, including the eight papers in the student session, will schedule 78 technical and general papers. On Nov. 5 there will be a field trip, first to the American Institute of 3ak*ng and then to the Nubian paint division of the Glidden Co. General topics to be covered include detergents and drying oils, solvent extraction and fatty acid derivatives, margarine and feeds, and fat stability.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS American Chemical Society 125th National Meeting, Kansas City, Mo.
March 24-April 1, 1954. 126th National Meeting, N e w York, Ν. Υ..
Sept. 12-17, 1954. Chemical Engineering Symposium, 20th
(Christmas), I&EC Division. Ann Arbor, Mich. Dec. 28-29 .
Other Organizations American Association for the Advancement
of Science. Annual Meeting. Boston, Mass. Dec. 26-31 .
American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Annual Meeting. Hotel Jefferson, St. Louis, Mo. Dec. 13-16.
Exposition of Chemical Industries, 24tii. Commercial Museum, Philadelphia, Pa. Nov. 30-Dec . 5.
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