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...present air conditioning is expensive unless a whole building is equipped when first built. Some tycoons, however, have the air in their offices conditioned (Orlando Franklin Weber, president of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., is a stout booster for "manufactured weather") and the cost is within the reach of homeowners. Ambition of the air-conditioners is "to make a building not cooled in summer as obsolete as one not heated in winter...
Allied Chemical & Dye...
...shoes, hats, pocketbooks. These gentlemen simply "get together" and agree that one season's cerise shall be supplanted by green, purple or "Mrs. Harding blue." They agree that a certain proportion, say 65%!, of each gentleman's production shall be in the agreed new color. That saves money in dye-buying. And each different product helps the rest to sell, since "ensembles" must be thoroughgoing. The U. S. gentlemen politely notify the Paris arbiters of their decision by sending over generous "samples," which the thrifty Parisians can easily sell for cash. In return, the Paris arbiters recommend the new color...
...Dye...
...Chilean nitrate is superior to synthetic because of its high iodine content. Other distinctions between the two are of little commercial import. Hence competition is largely a matter of price, which in turn depends on production costs. So far nitrogen fixation plants like that of the Allied Chemical and Dye Corp. at Hopewell, Va., have been able to make nitrate more economically than it can be dug out of the Chilean plateau...