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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (49307)9/15/2005 9:50:18 PM
From: tom pope  Respond to of 206141
 
In 1923 Midgley took the year off in Miami to recover from lead poisoning.

In 1924 the general public first learned of Tetra ethyl lead in late October 1924 when half a dozen workers making Tetra ethyl lead at the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Exxon) refinery went violently insane and then died.

After a number of additional employee deaths from Tetra ethyl lead, at GM and DuPont, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Exxon) placed leaded gas on the market.


That's not a bit funny, but it's so ironic I had to laugh.

Elroy, you know your chemistry and your corporate history! Thanks.



To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (49307)9/16/2005 12:48:07 AM
From: whitepine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 206141
 
OT> Elroy,

Thanks for the notes. Actually, I was referring to the complex history between IG Farben and Standard that included a series of explicit monopoly agreements over two decades. TEL was only one item among their many agreements. The nature of the corporate diplomacy remains, IMO, unclear. Many (Antony Sutton) seek to demonize Jersey Standard and try to cast every act by them as pro-Hitler, pro-Nazi.

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