Howard Benson Goff was a chemical engineer for M W Kellogg company hired by Percival Keith 1936. Howard Goff wrote in his memoir:
“With World War II in the offing, there was need to turn to work directed to supply needs in the chemical field of the military. Such a need anticipated was in oxygen production. My assignment in this work had to do with requirements for making and storing liquid oxygen on submarines. I maintained my office in the Kellogg New York office, but was loaned to the Government to serve as Technical Aid, Section 11.1 NDRC of the OSRD assigned to build and operate two liquid oxygen pilot plants, one at Stamford, Conn. and the other at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. As the objective of this work was to make submarines that left no trail….”
The reference to Section 11. 1 NDRC of the OSRD was for work with the Navy. The buildings of the Kellex Corporation in Jersey City, NJ, were for the Manhattan Project. However, the buildings would have provided other labs for other defense projects. Howard Goff would have connected to the uranium work that other chemical engineers / friends were working on. Howard Goff received a certificate for service for defense work. In Howard’s family, one daughter’s nickname was “U-235.”