Word: aniline
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Does a poverty-stricken area need more industry or more conservation? Last year the usual answer-more industry-seemed obvious to South Carolina boosters. They cheered when West Germany's Badische Anilin-&-Soda Fabrik (B.A.S.F.), one of the world's biggest chemical manufacturers, announced plans to build a $200 million dyestuff and petrochemical complex on an estuary of the state's Port Royal Sound. More than a third of the work force in surrounding Beaufort and Jasper counties earns less than $3,000 a year; the new industry would bring jobs and income in a region where...
Meanwhile, the Louisiana debacle has apparently taught Hickel that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of indemnity. Hickel issued a stern warning to Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik, a German company that plans to build a petrochemical complex on an unpolluted saltwater estuary near the lush island resort of Hilton Head, S.C. In a letter to Hans Lautenschlager, president of B.A.S.F.'s American af filiate, Hickel made it clear that he would not tolerate any pollution. "This department," he wrote, "will strenuously oppose any action which would result in the degradation of the water quality in that...
...move overseas has been led by the highly advanced chemical industry, specifically by the three companies into which the victorious Allies shattered the old I. G. Farben cartel. The three are: Hoechst, Farbenfabriken Bayer, and Badische Anilin-& Soda Fabrik. B.A.S.F. recently spent $95 million to buy out Michigan-based Wyandotte Chemicals Corp., the biggest U.S. maker of urethane plastics (1968 sales: $147 million), and it is now putting up $100 million to expand a Wyandotte plant in Louisiana. The firm has also budgeted $200 million to $300 million to build a chemical complex of its own in South Carolina (TIME...
...dirty world has suddenly caught up with the citizens of Hilton Head. Last summer, the American subsidiary of Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik, West Germany's giant chemical company, quietly bought up 1,800 acres on the mainland near Beaufort, less than four miles away, and announced that it was going to build a $200 million petrochemical complex. It will be South Carolina's largest single industrial development. It also promises to be a big source of pollution...