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...which he feels is the chemical field with the most promise. Among Dow's plastic consumer items: radio cases, toys, housewares. One likely new project is volume production of titanium, the new wonder metal, if Dow can bring the cost down from the present $5 to $7 a Ib.; another is a big expansion in saran fibers for use in auto seat covers, draperies, etc. In the past few months, there has been some softening in the chemical market as a whole, but President Doan does not worry about such temporary dips. Said he: "We build in good times...
When W. Stuart Symington was RFC administrator, he resolutely refused to place Government orders for tin at the sky-high prices that the U.S. had been paying in the world markets. In less than three months tin plummeted from $1.50 to $1.06 a Ib. Though Bolivia and other tin producers protested vehemently, the U.S. has since been able to buy tin for $1.18 a Ib., a price it considers fair. Last week, in a special report, the Senate Preparedness ("Watchdog") subcommittee roundly commended Symington because he "bore the brunt of the battle" against the tin producers. The committee said...
...golf's precision machine, two months short of 40, slipped a cog in the blistering (96°) Texas heat in the third round, wound up with a 74. While the crowd was following the big names, a swarthy, burly (5 ft. 11 in., 200 Ib.) player named Julius Boros, an ex-boxer who smacks a golf ball with punching-bag precision, slipped around Dallas' Northwood course almost unnoticed. Not until he posted his third-round 68, equaling the best of the tournament, did the crowd wake up to the fact that he led Hogan, by two strokes...
...shooting and sixth in swimming gave him a two-point lead (9-11) over Lieut. Harlan Johnson. In third place, 15 points, was a lowly Pfc. named Thad McArthur, 23. A letterman swimmer at the University of Washington (class of '50), stocky (5 ft. 9 in., 160 Ib.) McArthur, like most able-bodied youngsters, had found himself drafted into the Army soon after graduation. His natural all-around athletic ability won him no fast promotions, but it did earn him a shot at West Point's pentathlon training camp...
...Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, the operating room hummed with the efficient bustle of surgeons and nurses. On the table, her face covered by the anesthetic mask, Mrs. Raffelinia Manfra, 30, lay unconscious under .cyclopropane gas. She had just given birth by Caesarean section to a 5 Ib. 10 oz. baby girl. Then, without warning, came the flash and blast of an explosion in the anesthetic machine. The explosion knocked one of the doctors to the floor. But Mrs. Manfra took the worst of it. The blast seared through the anesthetic tube into her lungs. Within the hour she was dead...