The Archive · 1928

"CRACKING" PROCESS AND RUBBER

Alarm of Delegate to Fuel Conference

London, Sept. 26. aking before the oil section of the World Fuel Conference today, Dr. Gustav Egloff of Chicago said that the "cracking" process was producing over five billion gallons of gasoline a year from Petroleum-oils, and it would be Porsible commercially to "crack coal-tar, oil-shales, asphalt and peat. tars and vegetable and fish oils, Within six months, he continued, the "cracking" process could be extended in the United States to ice the hydrocarbor material suitable for motor-ty1

A delegate expressed the hope that for the sake of the rubber industry in the East the "cracking" industry would not be developed too far, to which Sir Thomas Holland, the chairman, rejoined: "You must. hot take too seriously everything Dr, Egloff has told you,"—Reater.

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