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Show CHEMISTRY PROMOTES INDUSTRY. 'The chemirt is becoming an increasingly important factor in our daily life, and his efforts are almost wholly directed toward low-ering low-ering the cost of production, either by finding more aconomic?,l processes pro-cesses of manufacture or finding uses for products hitherto consider-ed consider-ed as waste," says the September Popular Mechanics. ."To these ends many of tho larger industrial enterprises employ corps of chemists with completely equipped laboratories. Possibly not one discovery of value to that particular businoss is made in a year or even two years, but when it is made, it is worth to that industry many times the cost of its chemical department." It is stated that the University of Kansas was the pioneer in establishing es-tablishing a department of industrial chemistry and the result has been important and profitable improvements in several industries, and the utilization of a number of products previously regarded as waste. |