416.    BUSINESS WEEK.  Petroleum Substitutes.  July 21, 1945, p. 74; Nat. Petrol. News, vol. 37, No. 36, R744, Sept. 5, 1945.

                  Hydrocarbon Research, Inc., announces that it will construct a commercial synthine (Fischer-Tropsch) plant in East Texas.  The plant will have a capacity of 7,000 bbl./day of finished products, 80-85% of which will be high-octane motor gasoline.  Production will be at the rate of 1 bbl. of oil/10,000 cu. ft. of gas.  The process, developed in the past 20 months, has been sponsored by 3 oil producers:  The Magnolia Petroleum Co., the LaGloria Corp., and the J. S. Abercrombie Co.  The process is based on German laboratory research applied to American oil-industry techniques concerning plant design and construction and the use of cheaper catalysts.  The plant, it is said, will be constructed at a fraction of the cost of similar German plants and will produce a higher quality gasoline.