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Tangled Midwest. To be sure, the merger trend among U.S. railroads is nothing new (see map). But the plans for the Penn Central were the most am bitious yet. As Saunders promoted them, his tireless determination seemed to promise eventual success. Inevitably, it gave new impetus to a growing roster of other corporate unions: ¶ In the East, the coal-rich Norfolk & Western and the Chesapeake & Ohio-Baltimore & Ohio are moving toward a merger that will probably be consummated some time in 1970. The C. & O. took effective control of the B. & O. five years ago in a move that...
...month ago the biggest of Farben's successors, Farbenfabriken Bayer of Le-verkusen. announced one of its most am bitious projects. With Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s 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...
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