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...German subsidiary, Bayer will build a $60 million plant near Cologne to crack 2,100,000 bbl. of oil a year into basic chemicals for plastics and synthetic fabrics. This will vastly expand Bayer's production of 13,000 different chemicals, dyes, drugs, resins and photographic products (Agfa), which last year rang up $380 million in sales...
...Germany's Agfa line has a standout offering in a new automatic "66," a 120-film camera with a built-in light meter that computes the correct exposure time, then sets the shutter to the correct speed automatically. Price...
...unpublicized gestures by a large segment of U.S. business to replace or repair flood-ruined merchandise free of charge or at big discounts. Among the firms helping out: drugmakers Eli Lilly, McKesson & Robbins, Bristol-Myers, Johnson & Johnson, food processors Birds-Eye, National Biscuit Co., Pepsi-Cola, cameramakers Eastman Kodak, Agfa, Bell & Howell...
...Robert D. Howse, 46, who joined Waterman Pen Co., Inc. in May 1952 as executive vice president, moved up to the presidency last week. Yaleman Howse ('30) began his business career at Agfa-Ansco, later joined the Chicago management-engineering firm of Melvin J. Evans Co. In 1940 he became president of Argus, Inc., built up the company's sales from $1,000,000 to $10 million in ten years. In two years at Waterman, he has stepped up product research, modernized the manufacturing plant and revamped the sales organization. He brought out a sapphire-point...
Werner David went home from the Agfa plant that night to a meal of potato and carrots. Behind locked doors, he tuned his radio to West Berlin's U.S.-operated radio RIAS and heard about the Berlin protest march. It happened almost the same way at Wolfgang Fritsch's house. As he and his wife switched off the radio and went to bed, he muttered: "It's happened. It's happened." Next morning, at the Agfa plant, the uranium pits, the dockworks at Rostock, the heavy-machinery works in Magdeburg, at the center of Red Berlin...