Word: monsanto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mock Tokyo, traders on the New York Stock Exchange put on another show of confidence, last week boosted stocks to new highs for the year. Typical gains: American Airlines 5⅛ points, Chrysler 1¾, Du Pont 4½, Monsanto Chemical 3⅜, Norfolk & Western 6⅜, U.S. Steel...
When butadiene is polymerized with styrene the result is Buna-S, developed in Germany but since improved by Standard Oil (of N.J.). Styrene itself has no relation whatever to natural rubber. It is made from benzene, principally by the Dow and Monsanto companies, and gives an excellent crystal-clear plastic when polymerized by itself. Combined with butadiene in Buna-S, the product is high in tensile strength and resistant to abrasion. In some tests it has proved distinctly superior to natural rubber in wearing qualities. (Some Buna-S truck tires have lasted over 50,000 miles.) The Baruch plan calls...
...second time in as many weeks WLB punished a union for being a bad boy, denied maintenance of membership to the locals in certain Monsanto Chemical Co. plants. Unlike the precedent-setting Aluminum Co. of America case (TIME, Aug. 31), WLB gave specific reason for its action: the union broke a "no-strike" pledge, called a five-day, 700-man strike in July...
...really transparent plastic window pane, which will withstand the explosion of a 150-lb. bomb eight feet away, has been developed by Monsanto to end the danger of flying glass during air raids. The pane is made of 16-mesh wire screen sandwiched between two sheets of cellulose acetate plastic. It can be easily mounted in standard window frames...
Buna-S, conceived long ago, has had a most painful birth. It is produced by uniting, through heat, pressure and catalysts, two chemicals, butadiene (bewta-die'een) (75%) and styrene (25%). Styrene is not a basic problem; Dow Chemical and Monsanto should be adequately big factors in producing it. The bloody salient of the synthetic-rubber battle has been butadiene which, except for synthetic rubber, has so far no other reason for existence. Once the plants are created and producing, the problem again becomes simple; the rubber companies in their existing plants take the combined ("co-polymerized") butadiene-styrene...