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Doan was disarmingly honest, as were all the public relations men, scientists, and minor officials we met in our frenzied one-day tour of Dow's Midland, Mich., facility. They all talked about making money through the market system, and they all believed that society would benefit from their efforts if only they concentrated on making money...
...suppose Dow spent $150 to fly me out to Midland and feed and hotel me so I would return to inform the readers of this newspaper that only five per cent of Dow's business is with the federal government, and only one half per cent is napalm. That Dow is good to its employees, and that Dow wishes the war were over as much...
JUST about everything Dow needs, it has access to on the plant. Midland's main water route, which is called a river but looks like a sewer, flows right through the area and Dow extracts 300,000,000 gallons of water a day from it. The company also puts back the same amount of used water each day, after running it through a $10 million waste cleaning plant. Dow provides the power for all its machines, in three Midland power plants which generate enough electricity to supply a city of over half a million people...
Early in the day, one of Dow's public relations men told us in a short speech that Dow knew there was going to be something of a communications gap. If he thought we would leave Midland unfairly equating Dow in our minds with the German munitions-makers, he was wrong. But we, at least I, hadn't arrived at Midland with that impression in the first place...
...members hold so-called Master Charge cards, jointly issued by banks in California, Nevada, Utah and Washington; the rest hold a variety of cards issued by other banks. Next year three leading New York City banks— Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Chemical Bank New York Trust and Marine Midland Grace Trust -will introduce Master Charge cards in an effort to compete with First National City Bank's successful Everything Card...