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Doan was disarmingly honest, as were all the public relations men, scientists, and minor officials we met in our frenzied one-day tour of Dow's Midland, Mich., facility. They all talked about making money through the market system, and they all believed that society would benefit from their efforts if only they concentrated on making money for Dow...
...suppose Dow spent $150 to fly me out to Midland and feed and hotel me so I would return to inform the readers of this newspaper that only five per cent of Dow's business is with the federal government, and only one half per cent is napalm. That Dow is good to its employees, and that Dow wishes the war were over as much...
...these statements about Dow are true. But my overriding impression was that Dow is a world unto itself; moulder of its employees' minds rather than sum total of them, creator of its environment rather than occupier of it, and would-be fulfiller of all the spiritual and material needs of its constituents...
...morning tour bus drove through a gate in the miles of barbed wire fence surrounding Dow's plant, 4500 acres of land. "The largest industrial complex in the country within one fence." 700 smoking buildings. Miles of ground-level piping. Miles of overhead piping. Hundreds of vats, some of them 40 feet in diameter with a soupy green liquid bubbling inside...
JUST about everything Dow needs, it has access to on the plant. Midland's main water route, which is called a river but looks like a sewer, flows right through the area and Dow extracts 300,000,000 gallons of water a day from it. The company also puts back the same amount of used water each day, after running it through a $10 million waste cleaning plant. Dow provides the power for all its machines, in three Midland power plants which generate enough electricity to supply a city of over half a million people...