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were terms up to 18 months in some cities. Men's Clothing--Little change. There was a flight decrease in the num ber of stores1 granting purchases with nothing down. There was some con centration on $5 down, or 10% to 35% as the initial requirement. Two to three months' terms were in evidence --signs of tightening up; but generally 12 months were allowed, and in some cases payments could be stretched to 24 months. Titanium Makes Paint History Sherwin-Williams will start manufacturing this pig. ment, competing with its former suppliers. Since '29 titanium imports have jumped over 500%. An n o u n c e me n t by Sherwin-Williams Paint Co. on Mar. ') that ir wa going to ri.iiui aclure wlnu. lim.iunj pig .mi rif naaik lit1 l ij t)i' u m n die ,.tr. a but it kv-, i'.v iie men id l .TldUMiy. '1 hi '. -v Hk - large it unit in the business is acknowledgment of an important, new development in paintmaking. Moreover, it signifies a shift for Sherwin-Williams from a buyer to a producer of titanium pigments. In the place of a large and steady customer, the producers of the pigment are to have a large and important competitor Sherwin-Williams bought a 20-acre plot on the Delaware River at Glouces ter, N. J. for its titanium plant. This being On tidewater, ore can be brought in by boat. Explaining the move a company executive told Business Week; 'This is in line v.itb the S!niv-| Wil'Lms poiic) of comrolling iis o,.... important raw materials. Titanium pig. ment was the only outside item. Bmaking it we can save the selling costs put on the price by companies which have been supplying our needs." Titanium is one of those metals which develop so fast that they become a part of the national life long before the general public gets acquainted with them. It is another triumph of the chemical industries. Titanium pigments are employed in all sorts of covei-' ing and coloring formulas. In paints, A ; certain oil refinery uses a large amount of sulfuric acid in processing its major products. The cost of this acid is a considerable item in the operations. The still gases from this refinery contain a large amount of hydrogen sulfide, which is of course a raw material for manufacture of sulfuric acid. A ; K.oppers PHemolate Purification System, recently installed at this plant, talces from the gas the hydrogen sulfide which had been a serious nuisance and recovers it in a form readily convertible into sulfuric acid which the company now gets at a fraction of its former cost. KOPPERS COMPANY PITTSBURGH. PA. Boiler and Power Plants Castings - Coal and Coke - Coal Cleaning Plants Co:kl e and Gas Plants Creosote Dehydration Plants DHS Bronze Fast's Couplings Fire Hydrants Industrial Chemicals Municipal Incinerators Piston Rings Plate-Work, Tanks Purification Systems Recovery Plants Sewage Disposal Equipment Ships and Barges - Roofing - Tarmac Road Tars - Tar Products Treated Timber Water Gas Generators - Waterproofing Valves tition with white lead, SjSsEs oxidepIiHpone. A measure of its expansion is evident in the revised compositions for outside paints. For`this type .. tyf ..! pigimm. combi t U I on former1)' c pu m-c ' of 6>'r/i white k..d, 3*'r; J-.n.' O'...-. 10% "inerts" or filler material. No the white lead and zinc oxide content has dropped considerably, and the pro portion of thiiefor fiSs risen to afej.it iOO h i total. Qualities of Titanium Pigments Titanium whites cost considerably more than competing pigments. Tr: current price is l6e per lb., against <>. per lb. for white lead. But titanium s virtues are so manifold that they out weigh all other factors. Titanium pig ment, being lighter, bulks more, pour.-: for-pound, than lead; the covering ca pacity of titanium dioxide is said to 10 times that of lead. Its opacity (cf' transparency) is far greater than A peting pigments. Titanium pignK'U" combine perfectly In almost any sm\ ture, remaining completely unattej-c- As chemists say, "Tiny - u " a.L- i.idii'L.nnr m inir.ii- J~i: ' Mi-c ml.1. Also they are non-p'-i1ous, a quality that encourages their -v in food packaging, cosmetics, etc ( Leader in titanium research w -y country has been the National LW"^ , whose titanium division handles this of its business. National Lead^o--^ makes the pigment which it seQ,-.,l. paint and other manufacturers. ^ important producers are Kr ,5r A jOSiNESS We e k , ma r c h 19, 1938 subsidiary). Virginia Chemical Corp. , subsidiary iff Interchemicak Cprp.). ' j0try of Shjerwin-Williams into the making of titanium pigment will be generally felt. | Its purchases formerly fl-ere spread irun" among the big manufacturers. I During the past few rears all important makers of paint have Lne over to titanium compositions. titanium is ja metallic element like gold, silver, copper, lead or zinc. It was discovered by the Rev. William Gregor in black sands Vng the Cornish coast 0f England. Vhe name derives from the Titans, who in mythology were the jrst sons of the earth. The discovery v3$ made in 1^91. As in the case of jsuny other important metals, there was 1 Jong lapse before any practical use n-as found for titanium. Dr. Rossi's WVk In the United| States, Dr. A. J. Rossi contributed much to the development. As early as 1908 he separated an im pure titanium oxide and proved its un usual opacity ini a most unusual man ner. He mixed lit with ordinary salad oil and applied j the combination as a paint. Dr. Rossi had already demons trated the commercial possibility of ti tanium alloys. if\s a result of discov eries here and abjroad, the Titanium Al loy Manufacturing Co. was established at Niagara Falls, |N. Y. The Titanium Pigment Co. wajs organized in 1916 ind a plant was built next door to the alloy unit. Four years afterward National Lead bought into Titanium Pigment. It later bought full control. By 1922 demand rad increased beyond the capacity of toe Niagara Falls plant and the pigment imported frpm Europe. Spurred this showing,! National Lead im proved its processes, multiplied its ca l' acity, widened its markets. The duPonts w'.ic-red the field some five years ago. How Average Mian Is Affected National, Lead's! trade name for the figment is Titanox. A recent booklet 3rinutizes the points at which Titanox 'ruches the life of the average man. It :s in the enamel of his bed, the rayon Vs Pajamas, bith-tub enamel, soap, ''uving cream, fkce powder, rubber -'oring, plastic toilet articles, breakfast ojd box, chinawajre glaze, automobile '.cimel, white tile! walls, business sta^unery. cigarette paper, etc., etc., etc. is another important field in in ".r.al paints, -where the brilliance and "ijihty of the titanium whites have `-^istanced all competition. . -fhv cost of titanium pigments is due difficulties of sepaj ating the Oxide -':;i the ores. This is accomplished .` 'Jgh solution ini sulphuric acid, fol- by many oth^r complicated steps, "provements are! constantly being to reduce costs. The pres"l ' fu price per pound for titanium ! A TOWER OF STRENGTH 35 Complete Banking Service Ba n k e r s Tr u s t Co mp a n y 16 WALL STREET, NEW YORK FIFTH AVE. AT 44TH ST. 57TH ST. AT MADISON AVE. LONDON: 26 OLD BROAD ST. Member of the Federal "Deposit Insurance Corporation 36 MALLORY "FINGERS" Tiny fagars . of metal--Mallory electrical contacts--Insure the speedy, accurate opera tion "of modern basnets.machines . . -ical culator^, cask registers, billing and adding machines, `Where'te' long life and unfailing sendee are required, in mating or breaking an electrical circuit, Mallory contacts get the call. Mallory is the only company that makes eleetrieip contacts for all classes of service-- from giant circuit breakers to automobile ignition points. Through this widerange,ofexperience, and its unexcelled ifcilitiet, Mallory is ably equipped to serve a high!;' drvtrsified group of manu facturers in this highly specialized field. P. Rt MALLORY & CO., Inc;. INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA Cobb Addiress-'-P-eftnaUs dioxide looks high until compared "with prices of $1.50 per pound in 1921, arid 50<f in 1925. There ;r no d' tiger of exhausting ii .mi. m dtj ',ii This element is the ninth mod ah-'id.-ft in the world. The only questions are accessibility, -purity of titanium in the ores, difficulties of extraction. Much of the ore is im ported, for the reason that the most satisfactory grades are found abroad. India is the principal supplier. Nor way also is a heavy exporter. Import figures are a yardsf-, gauge the growth of titanium's -5? In 1929 some 22,386 Wjf" ''-' brought into the United States the tonnage had Jumped to i^y. an .-increase, p| 517.%, The 19% 7 ports were 127,491 long tons, yawl4* $687,600. Producers of the nhjLf' aren t saying how much the)- are ^ currently. A government statisfciarTi? ures that between 1929 and 1934 a ** him sales rose from 5% of all . ments, to more than 13%. * Mew Products-----New processes, new designs.1 new applications of old materials and ideas. 1 Ne w e s t device to expedite record keep ing with punched cards is the "Interna tional Collator" of International Busi ness Machines Corp., New York. As a filing machine, it will compare two groups of cards and merge them in cor rect numerical sequence at the rate of 14,000 to 28,000 per hour. As a pull ing machine, the collator makes it pos sible for one group of cards to pull corresponding; cards from a second group. Cards: not pulled are segregated for return to the master file. and spray upward into the bowl, ing all coffee grounds and depmife them either into a cloth bag or suitable pipe connections into the iasS In April, Deko-Frigidaire ConditioRSy Division, General Motors Sales Cj Dayton, O., will begin to market its sr unit conditioner for cooling, debuaif; fying, filtering, and circulating the * ; in any private office or home. Thera* PAIT9 FQR RADIO, GLECtftfCAL, AUTOMOTIVE AND INDUSTRIAL FIELDS Wh a t ev er the exact make of the glass howls used in vacuum coffee makers, the job of washing them thoroughly is a time consumer and a breakage inviter. Cascade Sprayer Co., 2709 First Ave. S., Seattle, Wash., is marketing "Kimex," :--v. -- - ... .. ...... . giigia WmKMKBKr SMtepaBBiMilll'Iiff lli i'll11 a washing device for attachment to the hot water line in any restaurant kitchen. Invert the bowl into a rubber-lined re ceptacle; attach a hose to the stem end-- hot water will descend through the stem stat prevents cooling below any hire pre-selected on its contio. p'y" Air direction selector obviates `p s Hermetically sealed "Meter Mfe w ing mechanism operates without ^ pulleys, connecting rods, and od f-- r In May, Delco-Frigidaire will b-.market three new automatic bo-*--,' ers designed to burn bituminous 5`` Ne w adhesive compounds ^ dn* ^ and patented by Bauer & Black, ^ make it possible for them their new line of "Double Seri--^ ^ . Pruf Adhesive Tape" in hre temperature of .240 deg. I'-, ^ string opening devices on t,!v packages make them tampes ;