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...Green did everything he said he would. He made his Texas Midland a model railroad boasting the first electrically-lighted coaches in the State. Any promising enterprise attracted his backing: cattle and farm lands, business buildings, oil wells, mines. And in nearly every venture he was successful. His hobbies were innumerable: racing automobiles, photography, boll-weevil eradication, stamps (his collection was the world's largest), astronomy...
...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...
...From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide for tanning), the cleaner (chloroform and carbon tetrachloride), the dyer (synthetic indigo), the rayon maker (acetic anhydride...
...Long Beach, Calif., the lo-Dow Chemical Co. produces a substantial per centage of all U. S. iodine. At Tulsa, Okla., Tampico, Mexico and other oil-producing areas subsidiaries process oil and gas wells to make them more productive. At Bay City, Mich., 18 mi. from Midland on Lake Huron, Dow now makes a magnesium alloy that is one-third lighter than aluminum and good for airplane and machinery parts. At Marquette, Mich., on Lake Superior, a subsidiary called Cliffs Dow Chemical Co., in which the parent company has a 60% interest, makes charcoal, combustible gases and acids from wood...
Founder Dow went to Midland in 1890. With a partner he bought a brine well, put into practice the chemical theories he learned at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland. Since its formation in 1897 the growth and prestige of Dow Chemical Co. has been continuous. Long before the World War, Dr. Dow's company had produced results which showed that certain German chemical monopolies were by no means permanent. In 1930, the year of his death. Dr. Dow was awarded the distinguished Perkin Medal for his part in the creation of a national chemical industry...