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...will expand production nearly tenfold. Using a sodium-based process, National Distillers will turn out 1,000,000 Ibs. annually for the AEC, build a multimillion dollar plant at Ashtabula, Ohio. By modifying the "Kroll Process" for refining titanium, Carborundum Co. will boost production from 325,000 Ibs. to 825,000 Ibs. annually. Using its own process, National Research Corp. will produce 700,000 Ibs. annually for five years, collect $22.7 million. It will build a $6,000,000 plant at Pensacola, Fla. to start production by early 1957 from beach sand...
Stretching eastward from Cleveland, the plants and rail yards reached 50 miles to Ashtabula, Ohio, spread south so fast that the road to Akron, 30 miles away, will be a solid line of industry within ten years...
...construction everywhere gave a measure of changing industrial tides. At Ashtabula, Ohio, Union Carbide broke ground for a $32 million plant to turn out titanium sponge. In New Orleans, a $7,000,000 Shell Oil building was nearly ready; nearby Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical got set for a $25 million expansion. Chicago's face was changing, with scores of new projects ranging from a $50 million medical center to the $46 million Lake Meadows slum-clearance project and a $6,000,000 pretzel plant for Nabisco. Nobody who toured the ribboning express roads around Boston could conclude that New England...
...Money." National's first big move into chemicals was to build an $11.5 million plant for producing metallic sodium and chlorine at Ashtabula, Ohio; with sales of $8,500,000 a year, it now has the highest profit margin of any National division. Next, Bierwirth paid $6,700,000 for a 25% interest in U.S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc. (industrial alcohol, antifreeze, resins, etc.), has since merged the company with National. He then bought a 20% interest in Intermountain Chemical Corp. (soda ash), and for $4,500.000 bought Algonquin Chemical Co., Inc. (caustic soda, sulphuric acid, chlorine...
...Near Ashtabula, Ohio, eight Youngstown College Phi Gamma pledges were marooned overnight on a breakwater 100 yards out in Lake Erie. Coast Guardsmen rescued them, said that if the lake had gotten rough they might have drowned. College officials suspended eleven members and the fraternity's charter...