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Philip M. Klutznick to Alan E. Freedman Letter, June 18, 1984
THE KANSAS CITY ST.
KANSAS CITIANS DISCOVER
are slabs of thical up in the young
teriorate even when not in use.
men's laboratory.hat are as limp as
col easily with rubber, for
A NEW RUBBER SUBSTITUTE
an inner tube and only slightly
matter. and the amount of
coarser in textw. There are other
mixed with rubber determine
slabs remindful linoleum and still
resistance of the combination
other pieces, taen whole from the
dation, Dr Patrick says. Str
And the Standard Oil Company Is Backing Them While They
test tube so tht they retain that
enough.
perfect
vulcanizati
shape, are as fin and hard as bake-
mixtures of rubber and thioc
Perfect It and Has Contracted to Manufacture
lite or the hard rubber used for pipe
be effected without use of from
"Thiocol" Has the Physical Properties of Natural Rubber
stems
phur
As is know in the chemical
If for no other reason tha
but a Different Chemical Straucture-Fo Many Uses It Is
world, pure ruber from the trees
mixes with rubber with
Declared to Be Superior and Resists Both Acids and Oils.
is impractical fr use. lacking rigidity
beneficial
effect.
thiocol
wordbox
and strength When properly vulca.
extremely valuable,
the
Can Be Made From Sulphur and the Waste Gas From an
nized with siphur the necessary
chemists point out.
Oil Refinery.
firmness is obtined. So in that re-
Resists Acida Oils
spect Dr Patrik and Mnookin com-
bine sulphur wih carbon and hydro-
Will thiocol resist acids? An
gen just as de the rubber factories
is the solvent action of oils
T
HE thing that couldn't hap they decided to make the first over-
to get variousproducts. But where
vastating
to
rubber?
Tests
pen happened, and that is
tures letting the outside world-not
the rubber roduct is expensive
made. Since molecular
why, in smelly chemical
thiocol far heaper
ture different to that
laboratory at 909 Wyandotte
the public, but the manufacturing
world -know that they had something
No claim nade. yet by Dr. Pat-
and
rubber
compounds.
street two Kansas City young men
rick
and
Mnocin
that
their
product
be different in its chemical
Dr. Joseph Patrick and Nathan M
that would "pan out" commercially
will work up into complete tire Any
Thiocol una fected by alm
Mnookin. have produced a substance
There were still hundreds of tests to
variety of thbcol they have so
strong acids and all weak ac
which looks like rubber. acts like rub
produced woud likely not be quite
in insoluble in the common
make, varieties of thiocol to perfect
ber. is said be more durable than
and these tests took equipment and
elastic enoughto make an inner tube
Ivents and unaffected
rubber and can be used for most pur-
money.
Kansas
possibly th side wall of balloon
oils.
It
stable
-extremely
The
City
experi-
tire Dr. Patrik explains. But be.
under
almost
all
circumstand
poses rubber used for and others
menters
needed
the
assistance
besides In addition the cost of the
of
thiocol ould used extensive-
order to commercially
staff of highly trained chemists and
ly tire treats, where slightly stif
utility
because
of
these
pro
new substance said to be less than
better equipment and facilities than
they could command themselves So
fer texture will do. and where re-
Dr. Patrick and Mnookin
half that of rubber even at the pres-
silience and resistance to blows and
their
product
to
large
user
ent lowered prices.
they went to Standard Oil official
Standard
Oil
Company
of
abrasion is demanded.
ber gaskets used to seal sect
The
In-
in Chicago and told him enough
Thiocol in his natural state is white
oil
tanks
together
The
gask
be pliable enough to seal th
against oil leakage. and als
resist the solvent action of
to which the rubber gaskets
succumb far too readily
T
showed thiocol sealed the
ta
withstood the disintegrative
the oil indefinitely
To the commercial world
the need of rubber that is
reactive
essential.
this
w
special interest This will
need for which hatura rubb
suited This, they point out
give
them
non-competiti:
These
and
numerous
oth
aimed determining the
and fitness of thiocol the
have performed and are
forming in their research dep
The partnership hunt aft
ficial rubber started between
and Mnookin 1923 when
working in the laborator
A
PIECE
OF
THE
NEW
RUBBER
PRODUCT.
THIOCOL.
BEING
FLEXED
AND
THE
TWC
KANBAS
CITY
HAVE AND ARE DEVELOPING IT. AT THE LEFT 18 DR. JOSEPH C. PATRICK AND AT THE RIGHT
CHEMISTS
WHO
NATHAN
M
MNOOKIN,
diana has contracted for the manu-
facture of the product and has paid
about their process to cause him to Hard thiocol resembles while tile very
the young men salary and expenses
institute thorough investigation
closely, and is seen by the investigat-
for more than year to perfect and
Made of Waste Gas and Sulphur.
ors ideal for bathroom wainscot-
test their discovery. number
Several Standard chemists came
to
ing,
tub
and
other
fixtures,
and
patents are pending now, both in the
Kansas
City
and
devoted
month
for
the
various
uses
to
which
United States and other countries.
thorough check up on the
either
bakelite
or
celluloid
could
be
Rubber-like
tion given them. At the end of that
put
if
only
they
could
be
produced
the phrase. For the Kansas City
test period the Standard Oil Com
cheaply For the pliant form innum-
young men, who believe they have the
pany
entered
into
contract
erable
with
seen.
The
hard
forms
proof of the pudding that the chem-
Patrick and Mnookin to assist in the
take
aniline
dyes
and
ac-
ical world has been trying to syn-
investigation of the product and to
cordingly
can
be
made
any
shade
thesize these many years. explain that
produce
it
as
scon
as
was
color.
ready
The
more
pliant
forms
they do not have artificial rubber,
exploitation,
the
dis-
colored
with
the
pigme
used
in
synthetic rubber, in the exact sense
rubber
coverers
to
the
and
receive
royalty
on
linoleums.
Both
varieties
They haven't substance that has
unufactured
of
products
thiocol
This
electrica
the
same
kind
of
struc-
tract entered into in May, 1927
qualities to a
markable
degree.
and
tura rubber. as the case with
and remains in effect today
are less inflan
imable
than
rubber
synthetic rubber
product
To make thiocol. two ingredients
The years of work have resulted
does what the
red_both-plentHul enough
dozens of other revela also
thetic rubber previously made in
the product much cheaper than
The tests show thiocol rebists sun-
oratories
haven't
done
It
looks
rubber One material is "high-line
and atmospheric oxidation. the
acts and wears like rubber, but
the
waste
that
comes
enemies of rubber, and the rea-
the
same
time
has
consti
crude oil when it is heated to
tires nd inner tubes de-
tution entirely different from rubber
gasoline
Gasoline
is
liquid
"Stumbled Upon"
residue of the "cracking" process
It is fairly well known, even out.
coke is the solid, and the
ADV (CEMENT.
side of the laboratories. that
the In some cases
thetic rubber has been made
fuel
"crack
All Who Suffer
Germans made during the World
but
most
high-line
gas
War and used some to case their
And
enough
of
marine batteries. But the rubber
From Backache
hundreds of thou-
made did not develop into
of
tons
of
thiocol
annually
You can't know the joy of health
cial practicality It too expen.
the Sugar Creek plant near
pep and vitality you Get Up
sive, and not nearly "rubbery"
City,
should
thiocol
plant
Nights, suffer Bladder Weakness
enough Other laboratories. have
be
built
there.
would
be
brought
produced substances with the molecu.
sul-
Burning or Itching sensations Leg
phur. the other ingredient. It can be
Pains, Backache and Rheumatic
lar form of rubber (C5 H8)2. While
obtained from huge sulphur deposits
Pains If you suffer. why not try
chemically this substance was rubber
in Texas and Louisiana the largest
the Cystex 48-Hour Test?
physically it wasn't It didn't bend
or stretch like rubber or have the
deposits in the world. and compara-
The World's largest drug stores
tively close to Kansas City com-
have recommended and guaranteed
tough
resiliency
to
blows
and
abra-
sion, and worst of all. highly
pared to Indiana and the sites of
nearly a million packages with re-
other big Standard Oil plants.
markable results. No narcotics or
perishable; much more so than nat-
habit forming drugs List of safe
ural rubber
Not Yet Perfected to Make Tires.
ingredients in every package
True, the chemists went per-
The varieties of thiocol may be de-
Ask any drug store for Cystex
fecting. making artificial rubber out
scribed by their firmness The
Make 48-Hour Test to quickly
of corn starch bases and what not
hardness of the product is fixed by
alleviate pains, enable you to sleep
and eventually they did produce
the
proportion
of
sulphur
that
well, feel like new and full of pep.
stances that stretched, were tough
used with the high-line gas, con-
Only 60c if completely satisfactory
and stood blows and abuse as does
taining carbon and hydrogen of the
otherwise your money back imme-
true rubber But even the magic
ratio approximately C2H4. There
diately on request.
sap from tropical tree
easily cheated For the
synthetic rubber, cost far more
than the real rubber which is pro-
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT.
duced only after the trees are about
20 years old
Dr. Patrick and Mr Mnookin who
Doctor Found Women
have owned and operated the Indus-
trial Testing Laboratory for five years
after they left college laboratories.
and Children Sick
and had worked side by side in other
Kansas City laboratories, say they
have not produced synthetic rubber
More Often than Men
It's different from rubber entirely
so far as chemistry is concerned. To
them it "thiocol." the name they
As family doctor at Monticello
have chosen, solid which isn't rub
Illinois, the whole human body, not
find the secret is physically
Cald-
to stumble upon it, in sense as
well's practice. More than half his
things are usually found- -they got
"calls' were on women children and
away from the old method of trying
babies They are the ones most often
to make rubber by creating a sub-
sick But their illnesses were usually
stance with rubber molecule They
minor fevers head-
found that the thing that couldn't
aches, biliousness- -and all of them
happen, according to the chemistry
required first thorough evacuation
books, did happen. One day, about
They were constipated
five years ago, while experin
In the course of Dr Caldwell's 47
with the gases obtained "crack-
years' practice, he found good deal
ing petroleum oils. Dr Patrick noted
of success in such cases with pre-
reaction he had never heard men-
scription of his simple
tioned
before
laxative herbs with pepsin. In 1892
The big quest was on
he decided to use this formula in the
Told Standard on Official of It.
manufacture of Dr Caldwell's Syrup
To see what the experts thought
Pepsin, and placed it on the market
it Mr. Mnookin went back to the
The preparation immediately had
university where he studied
as
great
public
it
pre-
you take such sub-
viously had in Dr. Caldwe private
Caldwill MD
stance.
he
asked,
"and
practice Now the third generation
AT AGE 83
in such-and-such way into or
using it Mothers giving it to
ganic solution. will you get such-and-
their children who were given it by
such reaction?
their mothers Every second of the
like and take it willingly. Every
"It can't be done. It doesn't hap-
working
day
drug sells Dr. Caldwell' Syrup
pen that way, they said.
going into drug store to buy it
Pepsin this coupon brings a bottle
Dr. Patrick and Mnookin began
There are tousands of homes in this
for free trial
quietly seeking patents for their
country
that
never
without
a
process. They knew they
bottle of Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pep-
ting that and they had
and have many hundreds of
FREE BOTTLE
heard
of
it
in
from grateful people telling us
before Neither had the patent office
helped when everything else failed
Mail "SYRUP PEPSIN,
at Washington, proved with
While women, children and elderly
numerous tomes on the chemistry of
Please
people are especially benefited by Dr
Dr
Caldwell's
artificial rubber, and the patents of
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. its mild.
Sy
FREE
hundreds of other chemists proc.
gentle action promptly effective on
esses
airned
the
g
goal.
No.
the
robust
constitution
and
in
body
had
patented
process
the
most
obstinate
cases.
Containing
St
leading
such
reaction
neither
The
time
came,
two
years
when
safe
for
the
tiniest
baby
Children
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Philip M. Klutznick to Alan E. Freedman Letter, June 18, 1984
Philip M. Klutznick responds to Alan E. Freedman's article on AZA's founding in The Shofar's 60th anniversary issue with his recollections of AZA's founding, including comments on Julius Bisno, Sam Beber, Nathan Mnookin, Charles Shane, and William Horowitz.