Word: dows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present, only U. S. producer of magnesium is Dow Chemical Co., indicted last month with Aluminum Co. of America and three other firms for conspiring with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie to hold down U. S. production through patent control (TIME, Feb. 10). Dow produced the nation's 6,500 tons last year from Michigan brine wells, is now building a plant at Freeport, Tex., to extract another 6,500 tons a year from the Gulf's salt water. When the Freeport and Kaiser-Reilly plants are going full blast, U. S. production will jump...
...Hansgirg's process, already in use in England and Japan, differs from the electrolytic method covered by the Dow-Alcoa patents, is claimed by Dr. Hansgirg to be better and cheaper. Brucite clay (magnesium hydroxide) from Nevada will be baked in rotary kilns to form magnesium oxide. The oxide then will be mixed with carbon and heated electrically into gas at 4,000° F. When this is cooled suddenly (from 4,000° to 380° in about 1/1,000 of a second) by blasts of cold natural gas, metallic magnesium is recovered...
...essential war material which Dow Chemical Com pany has just begun extracting commercially from sea water...
Last week the New York Stock Exchange took one look at the news from the Balkans, another at the news from the Far East, and dived. In a single day's trading of less than a million shares, prices lost 3.44 points on the Dow-Jones industrials average, reached their lowest level since last June-18 points above the 1938 low, 76 below the 1937 high. Next day they rallied slightly. But Dow Theorists and other dopesters still read the main trend as down...
Under the leadership of James W. Dow '41, the Outing Club will hold a joint skating and feasting party with Wellesley this Saturday on the shores of Lake Waban; afterwards the Club will go to a West Acton barn dance...