Word: midlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Midland, Mich...
Until this spring, Dow drew all its magnesium from its inexhaustible brine wells at Midland, Mich. From these it is now extracting magnesium at the rate of 12,000 tons a year-26 times as much as in 1929. This spring Dow tapped a new source which has stirred everyone's imagination : it began mining sea water for magnesium at a great $15,000,000 plant at Freeport, Tex., which by year's end will be sucking in 12,000,000 gallons a day (enough water for a city of 120,000) and turning out 50 tons...
Died. Josiah Baron Stamp, 60, chief economic adviser to the British Government, chairman of the great London, Midland and Scottish Railway, director of the Bank of England, member of the 1924 Dawes Reparations Commission, leading pre-war advocate of German appeasement; when bombs demolished his house in London...
...will follow: wholesale food prices have risen 1.5% in the past week; President Ward Melville of Melville Shoe Co. (Thom McAn shoes) talked last week of higher shoe prices. Items worrying business: White Motor Co. must spend an extra $300,000 this year on a 5?-an-hour increase; Midland Steel Products must pay 3? to 10? an hour more to its line workers; Cleveland Chamber of Commerce announced that 75 representative firms were paying an average hiring rate of 56.2? an hour, the highest ever; average building labor wage rates for common labor had risen by 3% during...
...several unusual features. Construction is being super-intended by Mr. Herbert E. Hanson of the observatory staff. Except for the polar axis and counterweights, the mounting is of Dowmetal,--probably the first telescope mounting ever made of this specially light and strong magnesium alloy. The Dow Chemical Company, of Midland, Mich., cooperated in providing the difficult castings necessary for both the telescope tube and mounting...