Word: midlands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inexhaustible supply of salt water. From briny depths 1,200 ft. or more beneath the earth's surface the 39-year-old Dow Chemical Co. daily pumps thousands of gallons of water from which it makes hundreds of products. Seat of the briny grand duchy of Dow is Midland, whose citizens once brought suit against Founder Herbert Henry Dow because his plant was filling the town with vile odors. Money-making Dow Chemical still rests firmly on its Midland salt wells, but in the last five years expansion has been going on in various parts...
...Bend, Ind. (TIME, Nov. 30). Same day the Bendix employes went back to work on double shifts, little U.A.W.. out to organize the Automobile industry by striking at its most vulnerable link, the part's makers, called a "sitdown" of 1,200 men in Detroit's Midland Steel Products Co., which makes frame's for Chrysler and Ford...
...Professor Masawo Kamo, who has a flair for oratory in broken English accompanied by dra matic gestures; Britain's horsey-looking Evelyn Hugh Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, Governor of the Imperial College of Science & Technology and Alderman of London; Sir Harold Hartley, round-faced research director of the London Midland & Scottish Railway; Sir Archibald Page, smart technician who is head of the County of London Electric Supply Co.; Mrs. Gertrude Ruth Ziani de Ferranti, widow of England's famed electrical inventor; France's Minister of Public Works Armand Galliot who is particularly interested in an automobile that will...
...eclipse, which will be total for two minutes, will be observed through the expedition's eight spectroscopes. The instruments are made of a new super-light "Dowmetal" and are donated by the Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan. With these and the new coronal camera, Dr. Menzel, who observed the eclipse of May, 1932, from Freiburg, Germany, expects to gain much new material which will be the subject for his lectures to be given in August at the Summer School session...
Grouse though they still do about low interest rates, bankers are currently making a little more money. Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings last week upped its regular dividend rate from 6% to 8%. Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. paid a 25? extra. Marine Midland, big New York State group holding company, sweetened its regular with a 15? extra. Amadeo Peter Giannini's billion-dollar Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association in San Francisco declared a regular quarterly dividend of $1,250,000, an extra of $1,000,000. A big RFC borrower a few years...