Word: dows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole new family of plastics is based on the element silicon, rather than the element carbon which provides the chemical skeleton for the majority. These "silicones" are the result of research by Corning Glass Works (glass might be called a silicon plastic) and engineering by Dow Chemical Co. First uses, undoubtedly military, have not been disclosed. The silicones, solid or liquid, have one extraordinary property: an ability to stand extreme temperatures characteristic of their silicon parentage...
...York Stock Exchange last week had three 2,000,000-share days, two 1,000,000-share days, a 750,000-share Saturday half-day. The Dow-Jones industrials average moved up to 130.7-its highest level since December 1940. Brokers in the back room worked ten-and eleven-hour days, and some smaller houses figured that their commission business had already paid their overhead for the full year...
...fact was that the cash-&-carry, cat-&-dog business has boomed ever since last fall: by the end of February, 20 "penny stocks" had risen 60% since May 1942, as against a 30% rise in the blue chips (represented by the Dow-Jones industrials average). And market men figure that some 90% of all recent sales have been for cash...
...ming (Ambassador to the U.S.): way dow-ming...
When war came, Dow Chemical Co. was the only domestic producer pouring the silver-white ingots in any quantity. Probably the Dow process, chemically and electrically cajoling the metal from Michigan brine wells and Texas sea water (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), bulks largest in the new increased capacity. But in recent months new producers using other processes have swelled the total. Some use variations of the Dow method to recover magnesium from waste liquors of ammonia soda and. potash manufacture. Others are for the first time commercially smelting the widespread U.S. magnesium ores...