Word: dows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more profit than last year. United Airlines revenues rose 11% over the $50,381,000 of a year ago, and President W. A. Patterson prophesied that revenues would rise 50% in the next five years. Chemicals reacted unevenly. While preliminary reports from Du Pont and Monsanto indicated profit declines, Dow Chemical's net advanced 38% to $14,282,841, and General Aniline's rose 90% to $1,450,000. Western Union reported a profit of $3,207,000, its best earnings in a quarter century...
...best-run towns in the U.S. is Midland, Mich., a trim, 50-year-old company town (pop. 24,000) where 86% of the houses are owned by employees of Dow Chemical and Dow Corning. In the 1952 presidential election, Midland boasted the highest voter turnout (81%) of any similar-sized U.S. community...
Management's imprint on community affairs is still apparent in some old established company towns. In Dow Chemical's Midland there are no hard liquor bars because "the Dow family wouldn't like it." In some company towns, particularly in the South, management frankly uses paternalism as a weapon against unionism...
Bate's successor as chairman of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature will be Sterling Dow, John L. Hudson Professor of Archaeology...
Professors James J. Lingane, Oscar Handlin, and Walter J. Bate will become new departmental chairmen, while Professor Sterling Dow will take the chair of a permanent faculty committee, Dean Bundy announced yesterday...