Word: dows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost 400 students have already joined the Society, and the first evening performance is now sold out, according to Hume Dow '38, treasurer of the Society...
...Long Beach, Calif., the lo-Dow Chemical Co. produces a substantial per centage of all U. S. iodine. At Tulsa, Okla., Tampico, Mexico and other oil-producing areas subsidiaries process oil and gas wells to make them more productive. At Bay City, Mich., 18 mi. from Midland on Lake Huron, Dow now makes a magnesium alloy that is one-third lighter than aluminum and good for airplane and machinery parts. At Marquette, Mich., on Lake Superior, a subsidiary called Cliffs Dow Chemical Co., in which the parent company has a 60% interest, makes charcoal, combustible gases and acids from wood...
...Dow Chemical Co. has been a consistently good moneymaker. It paid dividends throughout the depression. Net profits for the fiscal year ending in May 1934 were $3,584,078, for 1935 $3,370,713, and last year $4,382,717, equal to $4.42 per share on 945,000 common shares outstanding. Assets figured for the last fiscal year were $29,041,380, and including the new financing its funded debt will be only $7,160,000 after...
President of Dow Chemical since his father died in 1930 has been Willard Henry Dow. 39, who last week was named a director of the American Chemical Society for 1938. A graduate of Michigan (Class of 1919), he worked as a Dow chemist for five years, became assistant general manager in 1926. Not the great chemist the late Dr. Herbert Henry Dow was, Son Willard Henry has maintained the secure and independent position of Dow Chemical Co. by proving himself a competent manager...
...Founder Dow went to Midland in 1890. With a partner he bought a brine well, put into practice the chemical theories he learned at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland. Since its formation in 1897 the growth and prestige of Dow Chemical Co. has been continuous. Long before the World War, Dr. Dow's company had produced results which showed that certain German chemical monopolies were by no means permanent. In 1930, the year of his death. Dr. Dow was awarded the distinguished Perkin Medal for his part in the creation of a national chemical industry...