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CONTENTS 4 MARTINS CREEK STEAM-ELECTRIC STATION OF PENNSYLVANIA POWER & LICHT FEATURES OUTDOOR CONSTRUCTION {Photo on /rent coctr) 11 ELLIOTT MEN ENCAGE IN VARIOUS GROUP ACTIVITIES 12 RICHFIELD OIL CORPORATION'S NEW 40 MILLION DOLLAR REFINERY 13 STEEL MILL COMPRESSORS (Youngstown Sht & Tub* Co.) l-l DOUBLE-DUTY HOT SAW (York-Gihespie Manufacturing Co.) 15 ELLIOTT MOTORS IN MODERNIZATION PROGRAM AT DECATUR WATER WORKS 16 NEW PLEDGER GASOLINE PLANT RECOVERS FIVE LIQUID PRODUCTS 18 TRIPLETS AT ASPINWALL 19 OLD MOTORS AND NEW IN A MODERN CEMENT PLANT (Peerless Cement Corp.) 20 FORD CITY PROGRESS 22 SINCLAIR'S HOUSTON REFINERY EXPANSION 21 COFFEE-VVASHING MACHINE DEVELOPED IN PUERTO RICO 21 AIRCRAFT PLANT INSTALLS EMERGENCY GENERATOR (North American Aviation) 25 SCAVENGING COMPRESSORS IN CHILE 26 NEW CAT CRACKER (Southwestern Oil Refining Co.) 28 CONOCO AT LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA 30 MIDLAND CO-OP EXPANSION 31 POWERCRAX Poaretjax, published by Klliou Company since 1923, is primarily a record of the development of Elliott products and their application in industry.

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Pancoast and Pen dergrass (83) in 1926 examined a group of seventeen asbestos work ers.

ASBESTOSIS--Part I: The Collection and Counting of Dust Encountered in As bestos Fabricating Plants. t By William B.

Pratt A HISTORY OF UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION Table of Contents FOREWORD CHAPTER ONE GENESIS (1890-1920) Willson Aluminum Company Spray Plant Holcomb Rock and Glen Ferris Plants Calcium Carbide Franchises ^ Union Carbide Company Electro Metallurgical Company Linde Air Products Company Prest-O-Lite Company Mellon Institute Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation People CHAPTER TWO PETROCHEMICAL PIONEER (1920-1940) Clendenin Plant - South Charleston Plant Niagara Falls Plant Vinyl Chloride and VINYLITE Resins Polyvinyl Butyral Plasticizers Amines Fine Chemicals _ Credit Department - First Kirkpatrick Award Whiting Plant Ethylene Oxide Further Growth BAKELITE and the Bound Brook Plant Texas City Plant Research & Development and Engineering Products and Sen-ices - 1940 CHAPTER THREE THE WAR YEARS (1940-1945) Synthetic Rubber Program Manhattan Project Polyethylene Wartime Efforts PAGE -1 -3 -4 -6 -12 -13 - 15 -15 -19 - 20 -21 - 23 -26 -29 - 33 - 35 -39 - 44 - 46 -47 - 48 - 48 - 49 - 50 - 50 - 50 -51 - 53 - 53 - 56 -57 - 60 - 61 -61 - 64 - 68 - 70 Table of Contents CHAPTER FOUR GROWTH (1945-1960) Expansions and New Plants Polyethylene VISKING Oxo Alcohols Silicones Polystyrene Agricultural Products ,, Molecular Sieves ' DYNEL Coal Hydrogenation Nuclear Programs Computer Automation Environmental, Safety, and Health CHAPTER FIVE GROWING PAINS (1960-1970) Low-pressure Oxo Losers _ Organization ~ Sales and Facilities CHAPTER SIX ENERGY CRISES AND INFLA TION (1970-1980) - UNIPOL Chemical Hygiene Fellowship (CHAPTER SEVEN TRANSFORMATION (1980-1990) Major Projects Silcones II Bhopal Divestitures and Restructuring EPILOG ABOUT THE A UTHOR APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY EARLY PATENTS (1890-1920) PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (1940) PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (1990) - 72 -76 - 80 - 81 - 82 - 82 - 85 - 85 -87 - 88 - 89 - 91 - 91 - 92 - 94 - 96 - 96 -97 - 98 -103 -105 -108 -110 -112 -112 -114 -117 -123 -124 Illustrations Frontispiece Figure I Figure II Figure III Figure IV Figure V FigureVI Figure VII Figure VIII Figure IX Figure X Figure XI Figure XII Figure XIII Figure XIV Figure XV Figure XVI Figure XVII Figure XVIII Figure XIX Figure XX Figure XXI Figure XXII Figure XXIII Figure XXIV Figure XXV Figure XXVI Figure XXVII Figure XXVIII Figure XXIX Figure XXX -Calcium Carbide Plant at Spray, North Carolina, in 1896 -Thomas Leopold Willson -Major James Turner Morehead -John Motley Morehead in about 1955 -Former Willson Aluminum Company Plant at Holcomb Rock, Virginia, in 1929 -Electro Metallurgical Company Plant at Glen Ferris, West Virginia, in 1929 -Facsimilie of First Known R&D Report- 1897 -Union Carbide Company Founders and Management Group at Niagara Falls Gorge in 1911 -Laboratory Known as "The Shack" at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh in 1917 -Union Carbide Corporate Offices (1917-1959) 25 East 42nd Street, New York, NY -George Oliver Curme, Jr. in 1954 -Clendenin Gasoline Company Plant 1921 -South Charleston, WV, Plant in 1962 -Niagara Falls, NY, Plant in 1962 -Whiting, IN, Plant in 1962 -Bound Brook, NJ, Plant in 1940 -Texas City, TX, Plant in 1962 -Institute, WV, Plant in 1962 -K25 Plant at Oak Ridge, TN (1980s) -Union Carbide Corporate Offices (1960-1980) 270 Park Avenue, New York, NY -Union Carbide Technical Center in 1980 South Charleston, WV -Seadrift, TX, Plant in 1962 -Torrance, CA, Plant in 1962 -Brownsville, TX, Plant in 1962 -Sistersville, WV, Silicones Plant in 1981 -Taft, LA, Plant in 1968 -Ponce, PR.

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Important actions taken under this law include standards for a phased-out elimination oflead in gasoline and the setting ofsulfuric acid air emission guidelines for existing industrial plants. c l e a n w a t er ACT.

Tickner 3 Lead in petrol 'makes the mind give w ay'................................................................46 Herbert Needleman and David Gee 4 Too much to swallow: PCE contamination of mains w a te r..................................... 76 David Ozonoff 5 Minamata disease: a challenge for democracy and justice..................................... 92 Takashi Yorifuji, Toshihide Tsuda and Masazumi Harada 6 Beryllium's 'public relations problem'.................................................................... 131 David Michaels and Celeste Monforton 7 Tobacco industry manipulation of research ......................................................... 151 Lisa A.

Twort and Fulton (59) 3tate that oils with a preponderance of paraffins have relatively little API 04610 -3- carcinogenic activity, but that carcinogenesis is high in oils with a preponderance of isocyclic compounds, Pessano (41) found that some of the products of combustion in gasoline engines are in the group considered carcinogenic.

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