McCabe, Louis

Catalyst Poisoning, L. Louis Hegedus and Robert W. McCabe Catalysis of Organic Reactions, edited by John R. Kosak Adsorption Technology A Step-by-Step Approach to Process Evaluation and Application, edited by Frank L. Slejko Deactivation and Poisoning of Catalysts, edited by Jacques Oudar and Henry Wise... 

Catalyst Poisoning, L. Louis Hegedus and Robert W. McCabe... 

Louis McCabe, director of the Air Pollution Control District, reports to the Los Angeles City Council, November 26, 1948. Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Council President Harold Henry are on the left. (Courtesy of the University of Southern California Digital Archive, Los Angeles Examiner Collection.)... 

The Bureau of Mines drew a different lesson from the disaster. Louis McCabe came back to Washington in mid-1949 to head its air and water pollution programs, and under his leadership the Bureau called for a federal air pollution program that went beyond research to control. Like the mine safety expert Daniel Harrington, who had just retired, McCabe was careful to avoid open disputes. He hedged his criticisms of industrial polluters with encomiums to the goodwill of the responsible majority of industry. But the critical tone of his public statements was unmistakable. 

What was to be done about the newly urgent hazard The Industrial Hygiene Division promoted its usual remedy more research. But the experts who had been squeezed out of the Donora study—the Bureau of Mines, the Steelworkers union, and independent scientists—were not silenced. The Bureau of Mines in particular grew more vocal about the need to clean up the nation s air. Louis McCabe, now heading its environmental programs, urged a federal air pollution program that went beyond research to control. 

The promise made on Louis McCabe s transfer, that he would oversee the government s air pollution program, must have been an empty one. The new federal air pollution research organization was still part of the Industrial Hygiene Division and retained its anti-regulatory bias. Although McCabe was far from retirement at the age of 51, he left government service after... 

Herzog, Louis C. McCabe McCabe to Take Office Louis McCabe Quits as PHS Expert, Washington Post, Jan. 5, 1956. Anti-regulatory bias Dewey, Don t Breathe The Air, pp. 226—227, 244. 

Chemical Industries, Consulting Editors HeinZ Heinmann, Berekeley California, Volume 17, Catalyst Poisoning, by L. Louis Hegedus and Robert W. McCabe, ISBN 0-824-7173-7, MARCEL DEKKER, INC, New York and Basel. 

Though not all English Catholic school drama comes from Jesuit foundations, the term Jesuit drama is commonly used for it. On the tradition, see William H. McCabe, S. J., An Introduction to the Jesuit Theater (St Louis, MO Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1983) Robert S. Miola, Jesuit Drama in Early Modem England , in Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay and Richard Wilson (eds.). Theatre and Religion Lancastrian Shakespeare (Manchester University Press, 2003), 71-89. 

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