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This week Union Carbide & Carbon's Bakelite Co. brought the prediction closer to reality. President Howard S. Bunn announced the biggest single expansion program in the history of the plastics industry. The company will spend some $100 million on three new poly plants (in Texas City and Seadrift, Texas, and Torrance, Calif.), thus double present U.S. output- and more than triple...
Poly's first use-as insulation-is still important. In the past 2½ years the Army has saved $153 million by substituting poly for rubber as insulation for battlefield communication wire and cable. But Bakelite's President Bunn and other poly pushers think their market has barely been touched. Surgeons have successfully substituted poly tubing for bile ducts and poly film for brain membranes. Because of its flexibility and moisture-proof qualities, even at below-freezing temperatures, poly's biggest potential market may be in packaging fresh and frozen vegetables and other foods...
Springfield Coach John Bunn, and James E. Coogan, a member of the National Basketball Rules Committee, both applauded the changes. Coogan said he was particularly impressed by the "normal and sane course" which the new-type game took in the final three minutes, instead of the "indiscriminate fouling" of the regular game...