Word: finchley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chairman Chambers has simple tastes; he prefers gardening to golf, and used to subway to I.C.I, from London's well-to-do Finchley suburb until work pressures made the tube impractical. But there is nothing simple about his plans for I.C.I. The company is setting up operations to buy crude oil from British companies, remove valuable petrochemicals and sell the rest as gasoline or fuel oil. It is spreading out from simply supplying plastic to molding plastic products. It now sells 12,000 different items from alkali to nylon zippers and intends to expand its finished-product lines. Such...