Alien Property Custodian

Until 1945 no anhydrides of xylitol or any other pentitol had been described. In that year a patent was granted to Grandel73 to make anhydrides of pentitols by heating them with a catalyst, followed by vacuum distillation. Xylitol on being heated with methionic acid followed by vacuum distillation gave monoanhydroxylitol and a dianhydro-(73) F. Grandel (to Alien Property Custodian), U. S. Pat. 2,375,915 (1945). 

Chicago Section, American Chemical Society, Abstracts of Chemical Patents Vested in Alien Property Custodian, classified and indexed by Science-Technology Group, Special Libraries Association, edited and published by Office of Alien Property Custodian, Washington, D. C., 1944. 

The initial selection of books was based on the list of chemical and other technical books reprinted for the Alien Property Custodian, under the license issued to Edwards Bros., Ann Arbor, Michigan, and listed in their Catalog 6. Eighty percent of these were already available at Crerar. The Library Committee prepared a list from the remaining twenty percent. Later, since the Alien Property Custodian s authorizations already represented a selective list, it was decided that all of the books in the remaining twenty percent should be purchased. Some additional books from other Alien Property Custodian lists were also selected and approved for purchase. 

Faust, O., Celluloseverbindungen, 2 vols., vested by Alien Property Custodian and re-... 

The United States entered the war in April 1917, and in October Congress passed the Trading with the Enemy Act, under which authority the office of the Alien Property Custodian was established. The APC was depu-... 

For the 1936 rules see Office of the Alien Property Custodian, Annual report 1944,28-29, and Royal Institute of International Affairs, The problem of international investment (London, 1937), 83nl. 

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