Word: parkersburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry is still expanding. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. (which owns Bakelite, the biggest plastics maker) is stepping up production 50%. Dow Chemical Co. is spending $17 million on new plants. Du Pont has completed a new multimillion-dollar ultramodern plastics factory near Parkersburg, W. Va. Production, which was only 150 million pounds in 1936, this year will hit an estimated 1.6 billion pounds...
...people from their homes, cost, seven lives. The flood was one of the highest in Ohio River history, but it was no disaster. Thanks to control dams, Cincinnati's flood was confined mostly to its downtown riverfront lowlands. Other river towns-Marietta and Pomeroy, Ohio, Wheeling and Parkersburg, W.Va.-weren't so lucky...
STEPHEN P. DAVIDSON Parkersburg...
...Charleston's WCHS, Clarksburg's WBLK, Parkersburg's WPAR, Huntington's WSAZ...
Jonas A. Barish '42, Mount Vernon, N.Y.; Bruce Barton Jr. '43, New York N.Y.; William H. Batchelder '42, Palmrton, Pa.; Ralph B. Bennett Jr. '42, The Dalles, Ore.; Stanley O. Beren '41 Parkersburg, W. Va.; William P. Bernton '41, Washington, D. C.; Harold C. Bertrand '42, Quincy, Mass...