Records of the Commercial Solvent Corporation, 1939-1987.

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Records of the Commercial Solvent Corporation, 1939-1987.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/137240785

The bulk of the collection seems to date from the period of the Vietnam War and seems to concern both commercial explosives and military ordinance.

16 boxes (16 linear ft.)

Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History

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SNAC Resource ID: 6822114

Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History

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Toops, Emory E., 1923-

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Egly, Richard S.

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Commercial Solvents Corp.

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Dr. Richard S. Egly was Associate Scientific Director of the Research and Development Department at the Terre Haute, Indiana plane of the Commercial Solvents Corporation (CSC). CSC was started at the end of World War I as a joint U.S.-U.K. venture to provide the British with stockpiles of acetone, using the patents of Chaim Weizmann. Although they grew into a full service chemical corporation, explosives and ordinance were always a prominent part of their activities. Richard S. Egly was a specia...