WARTIME RESEARCHES
ALTERING COURSE OF CIVILIS ATION
“Prof. Arthur W. Hixson, head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University, speaking at a meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, said that industrial developments arising from wartime researches may alter the whole course of civilisation. Manufacturing processes which had a stable existence in the old order will not be supported by the new economics. They will have to be greatly altered or scrapped. Competent authorities are convinced that the automobile industry has passed its peak. It is believed that some of the largest producers in the industry will not re-enter it. Many of the industries which depended largely on the automobile industry will have to point their activities in new directions. The rubber industry will be very different in the future. Profound changes will have to be made in the petroleum industry if it expects to maintain its dollar and cents position in the American industry of the future. It will undoubtedly become more of a chemical industry than it has been.”— New York Times.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 65, Issue 5547, 9 November 1942, Page 6
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