National Aniline Chemical Company

National Aniline Chemical Company/ Allied Dye Chemical Corporation E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company Dow Chemical Company Union Carbide Chemical Company Bakelite Corporation... 

FIGURE 6.3. National Aniline Chemical Company advertisement, 1922. Drug Chemical Markets 10 [March 15, 1922] 664. Courtesy Othmer Library of Chemical History, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia.)... 

Shaw to Matheson, May 12, 1917 Agreement between William J. Matheson and Robert A. Shaw and National Aniline Chemical Company, Inc, September 11, 1917, NARA, RG 131, entry 190, box 1. 

National Aniline Chemical Company, Inc., announcement of formation listing officers and directors, n.d. but c. 1917, NARA, RG 131, entry 190, box 1. Derick recalls much later his distaste for the new management in Derick, A Foundation Stone of Our Chemical Industry Schoellkopf Research Laboratory Hampton Hanna, a nephew to a business partner of Jacob Schoellkopf, hinted obliquely at causes but clearly states employees dissatisfaction in an interview granted in 1918. Memorandum of Interview with Hampton Hanna, Esq., September 17, 1918, NARA, RG 131, entry 190, box 1 Reminiscences of Eugene Meyer (February 11, 1952), on page 193 in the CCOHC Haynes, American Chemical Industry, 3 243. 

Witnesses among the manufacturers included Henry Howard (Merrimac Chemical Company), Albert H. Hooker (Hooker Electrochemical Company), James T. Pardee (Dow Chemical Company), Henry Wigglesworth (National Aniline Chemical Company), Henry B. Rust (Koppers Company), Irenee du Pont (E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company), E. H. Killheffer (Newport Company), E. C. Klipstein (E. C. Klipstein Sons), Samuel Isermann (Van Dyk Company), and Herman A. Metz (Consolidated Color Chemical Company) in Senate Committee on Finance, Hearings, Dyestuffs (1920), 61-141, 155-83, 207-16, 281-326. 

National Aniline Chemical Company. Moocfy s Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities. 21st ed. Industrial section, 2783-84. New York Poor s Publishing Company, 1920. 

Allied Dye Chemical Corporation, 207, 242, 250-52, 254-55, 268, 275, 281. See also National Aniline Chemical Company... 

National Aniline Chemical Company, 125, 174 Allied Dye Chemical... 

WESLE MlNNIS National Aniline and Chemical Company Buffalo New York... 

Commercial isatin, m.p. 199.0-200.5° (cor.), was obtained from the National Aniline and Chemical Company. 

Manufacturers Literature. The manuals, technical bulletins, and reports issued by the Calco Chemical Division, American Cyanamid Co. Ciba Co. Sandoz Chemical Works E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. General Dyestuff Corp. Division of General Aniline Geigy Go. Inc. National Aniline Division, Allied Chemical and Dye Corp. and Imperial Chemical Industries are valuable sources of information on new dyes and applications. There are other companies that publish literature equally as valuable and useful. 

Meanwhile, on September 11,1917 (after American entry into the war, but before the APC was established), Matheson and Shaw—the Cassella distributors in America—had folded the U.S. assets of Cassella, except for its patents, goodwill, and contractual relations with the German parent, into the just formed (in May 1917) National Aniline and Chemical Company, which would—with Du Pont— become a leader in the new American-initiated dyestuffs industry. Matheson became president of NACC. In October 1917, Matheson attempted to transfer Cassella s German patents to NACC, but the APC refused to recognize this transfer and took over the patents, which, like all the patents taken over by the APC, became available under license (from the FTC) to American companies. ... 

Ibid., 50-51. Steen, "Confiscated commerce" (ref. 2), 269-270, is wonderful on the Cassella impact on National Aniline and Chemical Company. 

In December 1920 Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation came into being. As a holding company, it acquired a number of different companies, with different product lines. One of its acquisitions was the National Aniline and Chemical Company, with its core staff from the days of Cassella company. Thus, it too would benefit from German expertise. The principal prewar importers of German chemical products— Adolf Kuttroff (Badische)... 

T Prepared by acidifying a solution of commercial sodium flavianate (Naphthol Yellow 8, National Aniline and Chemical Company). 

As Garvan planned the Chemical Foundation in January and February of 1919, the APC had not yet seized any of the chemical patents beyond the ones sold with the Bayer Company. The rest remained in trust. The Office of Alien Property, with the help of the largest chemical manufacturers, raced to implement their plan before a peace treaty technically ended the state of war and limited the powers of the APC, which they expected could occur within weeks. Under the auspices of the American Dyes Institute, Du Pont and National Aniline supplied money and patent lawyers to develop a list of patents that they wished the APC to seize and convey to the Chemical Foundation. The APC s staff worked around the clock to process the seizure but essentially rubber-stamped the selection made by the American Dyes Institute lawyers, who possessed a broad working definition of the chemical industry — the patents included those for stainless steel, for example. The first and most important sale to the Chemical Foundation sent about 4,500 patents to the foundation in exchange for 250,000. By 1921, when the Senate officially ended the state of war with Germany, the total sale amounted to 271,850. 

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