ALUMNI NEWS 56 Tanks for First Large Plant to Produce Lithium Hydroxide from Lepidolite Ore
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ft ALUMNI NEWS 56 Tanks for First Large Plant to Produce Lithium Hydroxide from Lepidolite Ore In fifteen short years, many uses have been found for gallons to the smallest of 450 gallons, were fabricated lithium and its compounds—as a coolant for nuclear and erected by Graver. reactors, as an all-purpose lubricant, as a catalyst in This installation is another example of Graver's capac- polymerization, as a factor in making rocket fuel, to ity and century-long experience in fabricating the tankage name a few. requirements for complete plants. Similarly, Graver's Large quantities of lithium hydroxide are now assured nationwide facilities are frequently called upon to fabri- by the construction of the first commerical plant for cate multiple-unit installations of processing equipment producing the compound from lepidolite ore. This new and pressure vessels for the chemical, petrochemical, plant was designed and built by C. F. Braun and Co. for petroleum and nuclear industries. American Lithium Chemicals, Inc., at San Antonio,Texas, Whether your fabricating requirements are large or a subsidiary of American Potash & Chemical Corporation. small, in steels or alloys, Graver's experience and versatile All 56 tanks, of carbon steel, from the largest of 635,000 talents are always assurance of quality craftsmanship. EAST CHICAGO, INDIANA . New York Philadelphia Edge Moor, Delaware Pittsburgh Atlanta Detroit Chicago Tulsa Sand Springs, Oklahoma Houston New Orleans Los Angeles Fontana, California San Francisco ^ HI BOSTON mkAin. MONDAY, MAR, trt me ίi WALLACE J. FLYNN and family live in Arlington, Massachusetts. In addition to his business and family life, Flynn has scouted for the Harvard football team on which he once played. With him are his sons and his wife, the former Nancy L. Gillmore. (Reprinted by courtesy of the Boston Herald.) 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Particular emphasis was given to confusion might have been even greater year last month, opening its doors to coordinating the usual Freshman events without the presence of the 265 upper- members of the Class of '62 and welcom- with the orientation programs of the class men and women who acted as coun- ing returning students. Exact figures had various undergraduate Colleges and selors, and to make sure that the counsel- not been compiled at press time, but it Schools. The new students in Arts & Sci- ors themselves did not get submerged in was thought that the total enrolment ences heard a discussion of the roles of the snarl of orientation red tape, they will be about the same as last year and the various parts of the College by a had a day-and-a-half program at Gamp that the Freshman Class may be slightly panel composed of Dean Francis E.