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First to collect was the Chemstrand Corp. of Decatur, Ala., a jointly owned subsidiary of the Monsanto Chemical Co. and American Viscose Corp. The NPA approved a five-year amortization (instead of the usual 20 or 25) of 50% of the cost of a $25.5 million Chemstrand factory in Decatur, and an $88.5 million company plant at Pensacola...
...Pont in the U.S., the British company bought up Providence's Arnold Hoffman & Co., Inc., last year sold $8,200,000 worth of goods in the U.S. Du Pont, accused of monopolizing nylon, voluntarily turned over its nylon processes to Chemstrand, a jointly owned subsidiary of its rivals, Monsanto and American Viscose...
Green Thumbs. Monsanto, which had not expected to be able to market its new soil-conditioner "Krilium" (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952) until 1953, announced that it had been able to increase production enough to offer it this year, in 5-lb. packages priced at $6.95. One box will condition 80 sq. ft. of new lawn to a depth of 3 in., keep the soil porous and crumbly for as long as three years. Another reason for Monsanto's hurry: competitors were beginning to raid its market...
...annoyance of Dr. Charles Allen Thomas over the poor land on his farm led to the discovery by Monsanto Chemical Co. of a new soil conditioner...
According to available information, this is not happening now. In the first place, the names of the contractors read like the social register of U.S. industry: General Electric, Du Pont, Union Carbide and Carbon, Monsanto, Westinghouse, Western Electric, etc. Such outfits are intensely jealous of their reputations and go far beyond formal correctness. In spite of the lack of profit motive (Du Pont gets $1 for building the $1,250,000,000 Savannah River Plant), they are working with enthusiasm, diligence and enterprise. They comb through their organizations to find the best men to put on AEC jobs. They...