Word: parlin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking ahead, many a company saw a race to keep up with expanding markets. Commonwealth Edison Co. announced a five-year $600 million construction program. Hercules Powder planned a $10 million plant at Parlin, N.J., to be completed next year, for production of a new type of polyethylene; this will be the company's first move into plastics production. But money for expansion was getting more expensive. For the second time in three months, Manhattan's big banks boosted interest rates on prime business loans, from 3¼% to 3½%, the highest rate in 25 years...