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Ethyl Corporation

Maker and seller of tetraethyl lead fluid, begun in 1924 as the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation, formerly General Motors’ chemical company.

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Dates
1924 –
Also known as
Ethyl Gasoline Corporation
Wikidata
Q2112884
Over time
  1. Active 1924 –
  2. produced Tetraethyl lead 1924–1940
  3. people who worked here Robert A. Kehoe (medical consultant) 1924–1959
Who holds Ethyl Corporation
The debate

What it disputes

  • The Secret History of Lead 2000

    a distorted interpretation of known historic events and documents that have long been in the public record2

    A spokesperson read the statement to AlterNet and, the column says, would not say how the article distorted events.

Each side is quoted in its own words. Whether a finding holds is not decided here.

Legal records

Ethyl Gasoline Corp. v. United States

  1. 25 Mar 1940 Sanctioned by U.S. Supreme Court: its licensing of jobbers, used to control their prices, held a violation of the Sherman Act (decree affirmed) 1

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  • U.S. Supreme Court 25 Mar 1940 its licensing of jobbers, used to control their prices, held a violation of the Sherman Act (decree affirmed) Primary record 1

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  • E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company as of 1940 Primary record 14

    Howard said in 1925 that du Pont was part of Ethyl only “in an indirect way”; the Court in 1940 named General Motors and du Pont as owners of the other half, with no split given.

  • Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) 50%, as of 1940 Primary record 1

    As the Supreme Court recorded in 1940: one-half of the capital stock.

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Timeline 10 dates
  1. 1924 – Ethyl Corporation
  2. 1924 General Motors founded Ethyl Corporation
  3. 1924 Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) founded Ethyl Corporation
  4. 1924–1959 Robert A. Kehoe worked at Ethyl Corporation
  5. 1924–1940 Ethyl Corporation produced Tetraethyl lead
  6. 1925 Charles F. Kettering head of Ethyl Corporation
  7. 1925 Frank A. Howard worked at Ethyl Corporation
  8. 1925 Thomas Midgley Jr. worked at Ethyl Corporation
  9. 25 Mar 1940 Ethyl Corporation sanctioned by U.S. Supreme Court
  10. 2000 Ethyl Corporation disputes a finding of The Secret History of Lead According to Ethyl Corporation
Proof 7 sources
  1. Ethyl Gasoline Corporation v. United States, 309 U.S. 436 (1940), Supreme Court of the United States (text via Cornell LII), 25 Mar 1940. Primary record
    Among these is the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey which owns one-half of the capital stock of the appellant.
    Such contracts or combinations which are used to obstruct the free and natural flow in the channels of interstate commerce of trade even in a patented article, after it is sold by the patentee or his licensee, are a violation of the Sherman Act.
    The remainder is owned by General Motors Corporation and E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company.
    The corporation manufactures and sells the patented fluid to oil refiners, solely for use in the production of the improved type of motor fuel.
  2. Corporate Focus: Lead Keeps on Killing, AlterNet, Apr 2000. Scholarship & press
    a distorted interpretation of known historic events and documents that have long been in the public record
  3. The Secret History of Lead (Jamie Lincoln Kitman, The Nation, March 2000), The Nation, 20 Mar 2000. Scholarship & press
    the oil company (one of twenty-seven companies formed by the 1911 breakup of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust) and the automobile company formed a joint venture, which they called the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation.
    In 1925 he was appointed chief medical consultant of the Ethyl Corporation and remained in the post until his retirement in 1958.
    founded with an initial $130,000 gift from GM, Du Pont and Ethyl at the University of Cincinnati, where the lead industry paid Kehoe’s salary for half a century
  4. Proceedings of a Conference to Determine Whether or Not There Is a Public Health Question in the Manufacture, Distribution, or Use of Tetraethyl Lead Gasoline (Public Health Bulletin No. 158), U.S. Public Health Service, Treasury Department, 1925. Primary record
    which includes the General Motors Corporation and the Standard Oil Co. (N. J.)
    President, Ethyl Gasoline Corporation
    Representing Ethyl Gasoline
    Vice President, Ethyl Gasoline Corporation
    in an indirect way
  5. Statement to the Committee of Enquiry on Lead Ethyl Petrol, by Graham Edgar, Director of Research, Ethyl Gasoline Corporation (addendum of March 1928), Ethyl Gasoline Corporation (copy via ToxicDocs), 1928. Self-published
    Ethyl Gasoline Corporation (formerly the General Motors Chemical Co
    to spend a part of his time carrying on, in co-operation with the Company, investigations on the whole subject of the Medical Aspects of Tetraethyl Lead
  6. Report, Surgeon General's Ad Hoc Committee on Tetraethyl Lead, January 8-9, 1959 (letter of March 30, 1959), U.S. Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (copy from the Kettering Laboratory files, via ToxicDocs), 30 Mar 1959. Primary record
    as medical consultant to the Ethyl Corporation
    Technical aspects of Increasing the limit on tetraethyl lead concentration. Presented by tetraethyl lead industry
  7. Ethyl Corp. v. Environmental Protection Agency, 541 F.2d 1 (D.C. Cir. 1976) (en banc), U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (text via the Harvard Caselaw Access Project), 19 Mar 1976. Primary record
    supplemental brief of petitioner Ethyl Corporation
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