Word: dows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EXOTIC FUEL DEAL will link Dow Chemical with U.S. Borax (TIME, June 10, 1957) to research ways for economic manufacture of boron trichloride, used in high-energy Space Age fuels...
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BIGGEST U.S.-RUSSIAN DEAL in past decade will send $13.5 million worth of Soviet-made benzene to Dow Chemical Co. over next two years. Dow will get the benzene (used in synthetic rubber, cleaners, plastics) for 25? per gal., v. U.S. price of 31?. Company will still buy 80% of its benzene from domestic sources, does not intend to let its Russian imports run over 10% of its supply...
...issues traded suffered losses ranging from 5 to 42 points. It was the second largest number of issues traded in one day in stock exchange history (largest: 1,290 issues on Jan. 5, 1955). At day's end the market closed off 14.68 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, and $6.7 billion was wiped from the paper value of stocks on the exchange...
...planned obsolescence. This season alone, chemical and textilemen are introducing more than a dozen new synthetics. Each one is tailored to a special job. For example, Eastman Kodak's Tennessee Eastman Co. has launched Kodel, which will blend with wool or synthetics to produce wash-and-wear flannels. Dow Chemical Co. has recently brought out Zefran, another wool-like synthetic to be woven into coats, suits, dresses and sweaters...