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AMONG the many research programs started during the urgencies of war and holding promise of great peacetime service is the American Petroleum Institute's Research Project 44. This endeavor, entitled "Collection, Analysis, and Calculation of Data on the Properties of Hydrocarbons", is unique in that it uses as its raw materials the data gleaned by hundreds of investigators working in numerous industrial, academic, and government laboratories. This clearinghouse of hydrocarbon information owes its fortunate birth to a proposal made in August 1941 by L. J. Briggs, then director of the National Bureau of Standards, to the American Petroleum Institute, suggesting the creation of a cooperative project by the two groups to prepare tables of selected values of the properties of hydrocarbons. The institute's Committee on Fundamental Research on the Composition and Properties of Petroleum approved this proposal and formal action was taken by the institute on June 9, 1942, when it assured the Bureau of Standards ...
RICHARD L. DEMMERLE (Mon,) studied this question.