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...wasn't until two years later that Camden discovered that E. I. du Pont de Nemours had picked the town as the site for a $17 million plant for processing Orion, a new synthetic fiber...
...Nemours), Union Carbide has pumped $500 million into new plants and products. Last week Union Carbide announced another whopping expansion. From the Prudential and Metropolitan Life insurance companies it borrowed $300 million to step up its output of petroleum products, plastics, iron alloys and its new wool-like synthetic fiber, Dynel. If it can get materials, Union Carbide will build at the rate of more than $100 million a year...
WETTING AGENTS. A small amount of the proper fluorochemical makes a solution "wetter." This property is valuable in textile dyeing; it helps the dye reach every fiber of the cloth...
Many industries far outstripped the average gain. Of 26 industries sampled by BLS, nine (including lead, zinc and copper mining, the synthetic fiber industry) showed a rise in man-hour output of 10% or more. Productivity in the anthracite coal industry was off 4%, but for all the mining industry, it was up 6%, equal to the total rise scored during the eleven preceding year's. Manufacturers' productivity rose 8%, compared with the normal...
...correspondence reflects a growing lack of faith by a large segment of our population in the responsibility and moral fiber of our own process of government. Truth has ceased to be keystone to the arch of our national conscience and propaganda has replaced it as the rallying media for public support. Corruption and rumors of corruption have shaken the people's trust in the integrity of those administering the civil power...