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SPEC ι A L R E P O R T M o r e deta i led Census of M a n u f a c t u r e s narrows the area of uncertainty when attempts are made to de­termine trié pattern of production or consumption of a given chemical. Innovation: industrial water use. Page 442.

I N D U S T R Y T e a m o f s p e c i a l i s t s heBps a t t r a c t c h e m i c a l indus­try to the Houston area through confidential sessions with representatives of companies looking for new plant sites. In past 18 months team has located five out of 12. Page 444.

Long-promised AEC regulations covering licenses for reac­tors, isotope separation, and plants for processing irradiated materials become effective Feb . 18. Page 446.

R E S E A R C H Bell Labs comes u p w i t h n e w k i n d of t r a n s i s t o r that reaches a cutoff between 500 and 600 megacycles (older ones did not go over 200 ) . New f brication technique involves adaptation of diffusion process for introducing impurity atoms into semiconductor. Page 452.

G O V E R N M E N T R e s e a r c h is a l l o t t e d $ 2 . 6 b i l l i o n — a n e w high for peacetime—in Administration's balanced budget for fiscal 1957. This is a 1 3 % increase over last year, 2 3 % over year before. Page 459.

MANAGEMENT Before it took α step into polyethylene, Spen­cer made nearly 900 field interviews. From this survey it started to work. For over a year it laid the groundwork for entry of Poly-Eth into U. S. markets. Page 462.

EDUCATION MCA's plan for aid fro education on community level would be developed through a pilot plant stage as a chem­ical industry venture, with a long-range view of interindustry cooperation. Page 468.

P E O P L E H i l l e b r a n d A w a r d w i l l g o t o R o g e r G . B a t e s of National Bureau of Standards for "studies of the thermodynamic properties of electrolytic solutions and standardization of the pH scale." Page 472.

INTERNATIONAL At current rcrte Russia will catch up with U. S. in number of scientists and engineers employed next year. Russia is estimated to be graduating two and a half times as many engineers as U. S. Page 483.

ACS NEWS Penn Sta te sells Priestley's home a t Northumber­land—where idea of forming ACS was conceived—to the borough for token amount. This "chemical shrine" will be kept open by the community. Page 485.

BUSINESS Contract for 2 million pounds of zirconium over a five-year period or 1.2 million pounds over a three-year period will b e awarded by AEC early next month. Carborundum has been sole producer. Page 492.

MARKETS Selenium supply picture is acute as consumption ex­ceeded production by a sixth. Operations of some consuming industries are threatened with curtailment by Business and De­fense Services Administration. Fage 494.

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V A L V E C L I N I C S In spite of our belief tha t t h e Cooper Alloy stainless steel valve offers the best in design and operating features, we take it to school regularly. This "school" consists of continual s tudy by field engineers, design engineers and by industry itself subjecting i t to intensive examination and reporting their findings a t organized Valve Clinics. Cooper Alloy Valve Clinics have been held in dozens of leading plants, in­cluding Dow, DuPont , Mathieson, Celanese, Pfizer and m a n y others. Arrangements for such a clinic in your own plant may be made through our Public Relations Division.

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A new line of stainless steel ro tory pumps for corrosive solutions, abras­ive slurries and fluids which must be kept free from contamination has jus t been announced by our Van ton P u m p & Equipment Division. Called "Flex-Alloy" these new pumps in type 304 or 316 stainless (other alloys on re­quest) incorporate the same no-stuff­ing box, no-shaft seals, no-gasket fea­tures of the popular "flex-i-liner" plastic pump series. Full details are given in Bulletin VP561.

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On October 14, 1947, the Bell X - l made history by flashing through the skies faster than sound. Cooper Alloy is proud to have been teamed with the Glasby Company in helping Bell Air­craft carve its notch in history by furnishing the 30" diameter, 3" wall stainless steel sphere required for handling t h e liquid nitrogen.

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F ι N A N C E Despite opt imis t ic business p red ic t ions , bulS market

has lost some of its steam since the first of the year. Two reasons are possible: prices turned u p in anticipation of good news before first of the year; uneasiness about political de­velopments. Page 496.

P R O D U C T I O N By doing the "wrong" things, soldering of diffi­cult materials becomes easy. Even aluminum, stainless steel, glass, and ceramics can be soldered by first tinning on a grind­ing wheel. Page 498.

C H E M ICALS PYP gets the j ob of keeping elegant coiffures

that way. Cosmetic industry sold about 55 million aerosol cans of hair sprays last year; from 65 to 75% of these contained PVP. Page 500.

Ε ρ υ '. Ρ Μ Ε Ν Τ Gr ind ing in new disk r o ï i mi i i is accomplished by two rolls riding on a horizontal disk which rotates at low speed. Hardinge recommends its version for grinding relatively soft minerals. · Page 506.

L I T E R A T U R Ε U. S. chided for supporting documentation cen­ters in countries like India and Mexico while ignoring its own national documentation needs. Page 514.

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