Abstract
RECENT issues of the Scientific American (November 6 and 13) contain articles by Prof. T. H. Norton, of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, dealing with the prevailing shortage of dyes in the United States. For some months after the outbreak of the European war, American importers were able to secure an almost normal supply of synthetic dyes, but during the last seven months, owing to the embargo on the shipment of German dyes to neutral countries, only 50 tons of such colouring matters have reached America, together with small amounts of dyes of Swiss origin.
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M., G. The Dye Famine in America and the Proposed Remedy . Nature 96, 429–430 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096429a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/096429a0