Word: dows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five Great Lakes provide all but two of Michigan's borders. Yet within 50 miles of fresh water in Michigan there is an inexhaustible supply of salt water. From briny depths 1,200 ft. or more beneath the earth's surface the 39-year-old Dow Chemical Co. daily pumps thousands of gallons of water from which it makes hundreds of products. Seat of the briny grand duchy of Dow is Midland, whose citizens once brought suit against Founder Herbert Henry Dow because his plant was filling the town with vile odors. Money-making Dow Chemical still rests...
Such cheap financing of an industrial concern was a record low in an era of cheap money. Despite its relative obscurity, success of the issue was assured because of Dow's impeccable position in its field. Dow Chemical Co. is not widely known to the public because it does not sell directly to the consumer. For example, Dow sells aspirin (acetyl salicylic acid) by the barrel or sack, lets someone else put an advertised name on the drugstore package. It sticks to the primary manufacture of essential ingredients, lets others make the trade names...
...longer do Midlanders rail against Dow Chemical Co. as they did in 1900, for today Dow is the biggest thing in Mid land. Most of the company's 3,700 employes, including 500 scientists and technicians, live there. The plant stretches over 250 acres, contains more than 300 buildings, 16 mi. of railroad track. From 125 wells which look like oil wells come the salts from which Dow refines the ele ments of bromine, chlorine, iodine and magnesium, then makes the chemical compound's which reach the consumer under a hundred different names...
From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide for tanning), the cleaner (chloroform and carbon tetrachloride), the dyer (synthetic indigo), the rayon maker (acetic anhydride...
...Varsity class "C" squash team crossed racquets with M.I.T. yesterday, and beat them badly, 5-0. Those who won their matches were: Francis H. Appleton, 3d '39 over N. Dow; Hendrik DeKruik '38 over I, Peskoe; Marshall Field, Jr. '38 over L. B. MacGruder; Robert H. Shaw '37 over T. E. Langs; and Lawrence Ross '37 over G. L. Estes...