Ashland Oil, Inc.

Sherex Chemical Company, Inc.

Gary E Sitz

Robert A Grimm

Peter E Throckmorton

Roger K Chatterjee

Disclosed is a polymer-modified asphalt composition which comprises a mixture of (a) a blend of from about 10 to 75 weight-percent of one or more of a thermoplastic rubber polymer and from about 90 to 25 weight-percent of one or more of a fatty dialkyl amide, and (b) an asphalt cement. Also disclosed is a method of preparing such compositions, which requires gentle stirring only.

Process for the production of polymer-modified asphalts and asphalts

A vapor phase process for the direct oxidation of a methyl benzene to the corresponding aldehyde derivative; e.g., conversion of toluene to benzaldehyde, wherein said oxidation is effected in the presence of a catalyst system consisting essentially of uranium and molybdenum oxides in combination with an oxide of lead, tin, zirconium, cadmium, antimony or nickel.

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Marysville, OH, United States of America

Gary E Sitz