CHEMICAL TREASURE TROVE 



fuel gas, or making aviation gasoline, or as chemical 

 raw materials. 



This cycling operation is no penny-ante game. Though 

 but six years old, already there are forty such plants, 

 chiefly in Louisiana and coastal Texas. More are being 

 built. Every day nearly four billion cubic feet of gas- 

 condensates are being cycled, recovering some ninety 

 thousand barrels of liquid products which give us a 

 quarter of all our natural gasoline and allied products. 

 No wonder the experts declare that cycling is the most 

 important of all the startling wartime developments in 

 the oil and gas industries. 



"Cycling of gas-condensates," says Doctor Frank Dot- 

 terweich, "will do more to eke out our gasoline supplies 

 than any discovery since Burton learned to crack crude 

 oil. It will build a dozen new industries in the South 

 and bring the American people enormous wealth in 

 our new synthetic products." 



That is a bold but expert opinion. This Johns Hopkins- 

 trained dean of engineering at the Texas College of Arts 

 and Industries is an energetic specialist, keenly alive 

 to work-a-day problems. He resembles the traditional, 

 absent-minded professor as little as Buck Rogers does 

 Casper Milquetoast. Apparently he thrives on hard 

 work. Besides Acting Dean, he holds a double-barreled 

 professorship gas chemistry and chemical engineering 

 and he has been on loan as consultant to the Petroleum 

 Administration in Washington. 



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