Word: baytown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baytown...
...Chemical Co. is spending $15,000,000 on a plant at Freeport, Tex. for extracting magnesium from Gulf water. Manufacture of toluol (for TNT) from petroleum was begun by Shell Oil Co. at its Houston refinery; a new $10,760,000 toluol plant was also under construction at Baytown, Tex. by Humble Oil. Another defense-born baby of the oil industry was synthetic rubber: Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana had a $1,000,000 buna plant under construction at Baton Rouge, and Hydrocarbon Chemical & Rubber Co. will complete a butadiene plant at Borger, Tex. next month...