Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confident that better days are coming, Allied Chemical, & Dye Corp. and Kennecott Copper Corp. are going ahead with joint plans to construct a $40 million titanium production plant. But most makers figure that the large civilian market will be slow to develop. Said one titanium maker last week: "Everyone is scrambling for new markets. I don't know where we will go from here...
FANCY DECANTERS, introduced by liquor companies to boost Christmastime sales, are on the way out. National Distillers, second-ranking U.S. liquor maker (Old Grand-Dad, Old Crow, etc.) will drop its holiday deluge of decanters this winter, figures sales increase is not worth the extra cost of molding, shipping, distributing the fanciful bottles...
...sold stock to friends by incorporating in 1950, raised another $246,675 in 1953 by a public offering of 149,500 shares of stock. After licking production problems, he developed a new tape coating (Ferro-Sheen) with unusually high fidelity. This caught the eye of the Ampex Corp., a maker of wire recorders and other electronic equipment, which had gone into the manufacture of tape recorders after one of its engineers had brought two of the Magnetophons back from Germany. ORRadio and Ampex worked together to develop the TV tape for rebroadcasting. Ampex was so delighted with...
...optimistic note is that Khrushchev has bad kidneys. If he goes on drinking that yorsh, or whatever, he may, sooner than we dare to think, face the Maker he denied in life...
Disposable Clothing. Kimberly-Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex, is commercially producing a new material designed for inexpensive disposable paper clothing. An outgrowth of the search for a stronger disposable handkerchief, Kimberly-Clark's Kaycel consists of cellulose with a reinforcing webbing of thread, is already being used for disposable laboratory coats and coveralls. Other uses: throwaway raincoats, aprons, skirts and industrial caps, which may sell for less than the cost of laundering or cleaning a regular cloth...