Word: camden
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National Steel Corp., fifth biggest U.S. producer, last week announced plans for a big plant on the Delaware River near Camden, N.J. to add 1,000,000 tons, or 22%, to its capacity. When the new plant and other expansion plans are completed, said National's Board Chairman Ernest T. Weir, the company will turn out 6,500,000 tons of steel a year. For the Camden mill, ore will be brought up the Delaware from the new Quebec-Labrador fields (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948) National is helping to develop...
Robert Marc Mazo '53 of Camden, New Jersey, and Kirkland House recently won a one-year $600 full tuition scholarship for work in science from the Radio Corporation of America. Meanwhile, the Harvard Club of Long Island announced it would finance a new $650 scholarship to high school graduates entering as freshmen next year...
American President Lines launched this sleek 19,600-ton, 536-foot passenger cargo liner, the S.S. President Jackson, in Camden, NJ. last week Built at a cost of %13 million Jackson does 19 knots, is the first of three new round-the-world liners which American President will have in service by May 1951 The Jackson which-has pastel-tinted interiors designed by Raymond Loewy air-conditioned staterooms and an outdoor swimming pool, can carry 204 passengers, all first class. Fare for the 100-day globe-girdling cruise...
Until two years ago, Selby was a Bulletin rewrite man. As a vacation fillin, he started to write "In Our Town," which had been merely a collection of amusing miscellany. Selby filled in so vigorously that he kept the column, and transformed it. When a Camden commuter complained about having to pay an extra 3? for a transfer on Philadelphia's transit system Selby investigated. He found, to the transit company's amazement, that its cashiers were systematically overcharging everyone. When other readers complained about tenement "fire traps," Selby checked into the city ordinances, and soon landlords...
...business to the development of new products, has many other big projects for 1950. By year's end, its huge new $30 million Experimental Station near Wilmington, Del., headquarters for the bulk of Du Pont research, will be finished. By summer, a new plant at Camden, S.C. will be ready to start spinning 6,000,000 lbs. a year of Du Pont's new synthetic fiber, Orion, on which it has spent $22 million for research and plants...