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FILE NAME: American Cyanamid (AMCY) DATE: 1964 Sept DOC#: AMCY016 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Published Article from American Cyanamid Journal fonatoria! Candidates Clash on Controversial Platform Plank See Page CrAJVAMJ0 Cyanamid News AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY WAYNE, N. J. & < > ! Septem ber 14, 1964 SCHEDULE cilBreck Buys Time Industry Support Urged on J3n Four National In Drug-Test Research C-TV Shows W ^ S pringfield, Mass. -- Breck Commission On Drug Safety Recommends FDA Become More Scientifically Oriented mu4 |i Recently contracted for forty Chicago---The Commission on Drug Safety recently 's* ^ (Sue commercial minutes on four . different ABC television net- hilfjja -work programs during the final y aP:| 'uarter of 1964. 1 C' Starting the week of Septem- ,fei| 'fbei' 13, and running through '|j ;J3ficember, Breck will-be a par id thj 'ticipating sponsor in "The Pat- Buir| -;ty Duke Show," "Valentine's have^ 'ijay," "Voyage to the Bottom teats :.of the Sea," and "Hollywood r off I,Palace." ,* Breck commercials will ap- .y ?pear on all four programs dur , ving their fall premiers this week, icrib-^ Breck commercials will ap- IchoK'l /.pear on "The Patty Duke Show" ilablej jjfeyery week during the period 5nne?* S*nd on a staggered schedule on HaV-| ;vthe other three programs. 3uca-g "The Patty Duke Show,1 NewjJ jvhich Breck has co-sponsored (since it premiered in 1963, has become a singular success. It consistently appeared in the ^op-twenty listings of TV shows ajj**'. (Continued on page 4) View From The Top The rippling field of plastic in this unusual picture is a topside view of the canopy which creates the effect of a tree-shaded grove at the IBM exhibit at the World's Fair. More than 1,000 Skydomes, custom-made by Cyanamid's Building Products Division, are used here. Hogfeed Additive Introduced In Canada ith Coast-To-Coast Sales Promotion rafl^t t Montreal1 -- Cyanamid's and public relations reprsenta products m anager and coordi | atjreo sp 250 medicated feed tives of Cyanamid of Canada nator of the introduction pro recommended a broad program to step up research in drug testing techniques and cited a need for the Food and Drug Administration to become "scientifically oriented." In a 219-page report, concluding its year-long examina tion of drug safety, the Commission said that the procedures and standards of drug testing in Building Products the United States are as good as can be found in the world. "The public should know that Plans Relocation almost without exception, drugs, if properly used, carry no risks of untoward side effects," the Before End Of '64 report said. The Commis C a m b r id g e , M a s s . -- The sion noted, how headquarters of Cyanamid's ever, that total Building Products Division is d r u g -r e la te d slated to be moved from here research in the to a new location at Wakefield, Mass., company officials an nounced recently. A new two-story building, now under construction in resi dential Wakefield, will provide 12,000 square feet of office space to fill the need for additional room. The new building will house Division marketing headquar ters, accounting department, and Division management and administrative offices. About 45 persons w ill be transferred from Cambridge where Divi nation--that of industry, the university, fund-supported I institutes, and Ccggeshalt the government--should be ex panded to insure safety in the use of today's and tomorrow's drugs. The Commission was com posed of fourteen outstanding scientists and medical authori ties under the chairmanship of Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall, vice president, University of Chi(Continued on page 2) Jjpremix, which has captured a went on a cross-country tour of gram, told farm ers then they sion headquarters had been lo Rlmaragreketpefrocrenhtaoggefeeodf atdhdeitiUv.eSs., panredssmceoentifnegrsenwceitsh, fseaeleds dreaallleierss fcooruledveexrypedcot lalafrivsepednotlloarn rAeUtuRErnO catTehdesminocvee i1s9t5e5n. tatively sched Plant Adopts Process iuip| Iwas recently introduced on the and manufacturers. Sp 250 as a result of feed sav uled for completion by the end For Dyes Production gpanadian market. An advertising campaign ings and disease control. of this year when construction , -Two weeks after Canadian governm ent approval was re ceived, AUREO sP 250 was in ^production at the Welland plant. p 2 A team of advertising, sales Portland Plant Cited |For Eight Safe Years P ortland, Ore.-- Cyanamid's );branch office and warehouse has earned, for the first EjjP Vfcime, the company's Safety i'-sv`Award Bronze Plaque for 400,- 031 man-hours of injury-free j operations between January, III''1956, and September, 1964. ' Cyanamid employs 32 persons 'at that location. K. H. Tate is built around double and single page spreads in leading farm journals, radio spots and direct mail to farmers followed. "As a result of the crash pro gram, virtually every farmer in Canada who raises hogs now knows about aureo s*p 250," said a Cyanamid spokesman. "They've already started re questing feed fortified with the product from their dealers. Extensive tests have shown that hogs weaned at three weeks and fed aureo s*p 250 have in' creased weight at an average of 87 per cent faster than hogs not receiving it. In addition, this was done on 15 per cent less feed per pound gained. `Its effectiveness in combat ting swine diseases and allow ing the animal to more efficient ly utilize his feed, accounts for the striking weight gains and improved profit potential for farmers," said Dr. Simpson. is- completed. The Wasco Flashing Plant, located adjacent to the present Building Products Division headquarters building, will re main at its present location in Cambridge, an official said. Developed By Trainee Marietta, Ohio -- An im proved dye manufacturing proc ess developed by a 24-year-old summer career program par ticipant is being successfully tested for plant-scale produc tion, according to R. E. Leach, manager of Cyanamid's plant here. Robert K. Webb, a chemical engineer and second-year medi cal student at the University of West Virginia, was cited by Robert Dyar, plant technical di rector, for making "a definite contribution to the increased efficiency of a dye production process at the plant. i branch manager. Dr. K. D. Simpson, animal Adapting Idea nY| Cyanamid Is 71st Largest Company [Of 500 Rated By Fortune Magazine ..ft* V> In Fortune magazine's tenth ical, Allied Chemical, and Olin $ ^annual directory of the 500 Mathieson lead in that order 0 largest corporations, Cyanamid Fortune*s ranking of corpo / |took'an impressive jump from rations is based on total sales. 01 ^Seventy-sixth position to be-t In 1963, Cyanamid's sales were ^ >fhg ome the seventy-first largest $710,529,000 for a net profit of ;rAm*g ^corporation in the U.S. $66,339,000. With 9.3 percent iy L$v'Once again Cyanamid holds of sales profit, up from 9.1 per m i ^seventh position among chemi- cent in 1962, Cyanamid moved |cid corporations. DuPont, Union up m position from sixty-second Sarbide, Monsanto, Dow Chem to sixtieth ' fin this category, Robert K. Webb, a 24-year-old chemical engineer and medical stodent, demonstrates a new process developed this summer at Marietta. Webb developed an idea and i laboratory experiments to ;e its feasibility," Dyar said, emists are now adapting the [cess-to plant use." ebb is slated to graduate medical school in 1967. ambition is to apply his ibined engineering and medtraining to research in de- ping synthetic organs for human body. The researcher completed his second summer of work at the Marietta plant in September.