Abstract

CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS WITH a record-breaking all-time attendance the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association for the third successive year was compressed into a one-day affair, strictly a wartime meeting and with none of the relaxing activities which made prewar gatherings at Sky Top, high in the Poconos, or Seaview, near Atlantic City, doubly attractive to top-flight executives of the chemical industry. Influenced by nostalgic thoughts of yesteryear, many attending the Waldorf-Astoria meeting in New York on June 1 opined that the association membership has grown so rapidly in the past three years that a return to greener scenes in the postwar era was no more than an idle, but withal a pleasurable dream even among the plush and still air-conditioned surroundings of the Waldorf's Jade and Wedgewood Rooms. Gone but not forgotten were the happy or unhappy memories of the exploits or failures at the famous water hole at Sky Top ...

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