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Although Dow Chemical has branches elsewhere, the root of its business is still in Midland, Mich., where in 1890 Founder Herbert Dow, two years out of Case School of Applied Science, first set up shop. There plumbing 1,200 feet to a huge salt pool, he began refining the brine into everything from patented laxatives to synthetic indigo dyes...
Midland's brine deposits have brought stockholders dividends as regularly as Epsom salt brings relief. Last year (ending May 31, 1938) the company netted $3,895,269, approximate average for 1934-38. Never before in a merger, Dow has a good reason for this one: it wants a West Coast branch,* and Great Western offers that as well as exclusive rights to cheap processes of making chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, hexachloroethane...
...know or should know, you cannot ever get your sheepskin from Harvard until you know how to swim, and so you will be taught will nilly if you are among the five per cent who don't know how to master the brine when you get here. If you are aquatically minded, swimming in the gala Indoor Athletic Building pool will lure you sooner or later, and the Crimson swimming teams, under Coach Hall Ulen, are a pride of Harvard...
...bright green, oblong fruit which grows on small evergreen trees, citron uncooked is about as unpalatable as raw fowl; its pulp is bitter, its rind thick and tough. After being soaked in brine and cooked in syrup, however, it has a sugary quality much like other candied fruit. Some 5,000,000 lb. of citron are used annually in U. S. fruitcakes, candies and pastries, yet the fruit has never been produced in quantities in the U. S.; most of it comes from Sicily, Italy, the West Indies...
Evidence was then submitted to the court to prove that Birdman Staggs inveterately smoked Camels. He was found guilty & Camel-smoking Staggs was ordered to furnish each member of the court with a pack of Old Golds. C. BRINE...