Word: midlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They are also marketing new foods. In Colombia. Quaker Oats is promoting a powdered cereal that contains cottonseed flour, corn meal, sorghum and yeast to add body-strengthening vitamins and protein to diets in which their lack dwarfs and weakens millions of children each year. Minneapolis-based Archer-Daniels-Midland is shipping a protein-enriched powdered-soybean beverage to countries as far off as Korea. Corn Products Co. is working on hybrid seeds to improve corn yields in South America, recently brought out an enriched version of a familiar Brazilian baby food called Maizena. Says Executive Vice President Beverly Warner...
...from the weather. U.S. Steel has just introduced a spiral nail which not only fastens lumber more securely but provides up to 29% more nails per pound than the smooth-shank variety. And Crucible Steel last week announced that it will build the world's first plant, at Midland, Pa., to make stainless steel in a continuous liquid process from chrome ore in a blast furnace to a slab-casting machine...
...constituency of Huyton, a working-class suburb of Liverpool, by 20,940 votes. Of all the Labor victories, the happiest belonged to Patrick Gordon Walker, whom Wilson had appointed Foreign Secretary in his first Cabinet. But Gordon Walker lost in 1964 in a campaign marred by racism in the Midland town of Smethwick, then lost a "safe" by-election at Leyton last year and had to step down. This time Gordon Walker won Leyton handily, will probably be rewarded with a Cabinet post-perhaps as the minister to explore the possibilities of Britain's entry into the Common Market...
...took effect within Dow under which European operations, which account for $150 million of the sales, were folded into a Zurich-based division called Dow Chemical Europe. The new operating division is run by Zoltan Merszei, 43, a Hungarian-born Canadian citizen, who reports directly to Dow's Midland, Mich., headquarters rather than through an international division; he is responsible for his own budget, product % priorities, advertising and new-business development. "It is better to ask what I cannot do," beams Merszei. "I can do anything to improve Dow profits." Dow has two other divisions for Latin America...
Skouras says he is willing to put in some $20 million of his own, has large financing from Marine Midland Trust Co. and Chase Manhattan Bank, and wants the Government to ante up about $125 million. The cost is stiff-but anything would be a bargain if it could help rescue the U.S. merchant marine. The once proud fleet is being pushed into increasingly rough straits by low efficiency, high labor costs, and fierce foreign competition...