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CHARLES W. AUVIL JR. Pensacola...
...Hominy." Across the state to the west, in land long known as "hog 'n hominy country," Chemstrand's $85 million nylon plant at Pensacola was in commercial production, would soon be turning out 50 million Ibs. of yarn a year. Eight pulp and paper plants were producing at the rate of $230 million a year, having boosted capacity 50% in the past two years alone. Soon to go into production: an $18 million cellulose plant owned by Procter & Gamble...
...Road. In Pensacola, Fla., Daisy Weatherington, hitchhiking in a strapless evening gown, was picked up by suspicious police, explained that the dress was "the only decent thing I had to wear...
...parts of the South, one-crop agriculture (cotton) disappeared along with the one-crop industry (textiles). Among the newcomers: Mead Corp.'s $30 million paper plant at Rome, Ga., American Cyanamid's $40 million ammonia plant near New Orleans, Chemstrand's $100 million nylon plant outside Pensacola, Fla. In 1953, for the first time, the value of Dixie's chemical products exceeded the value of its textile output...
...million expansion program under way. (One House committee witness told how the Government spent $43,369 hauling $4,368 worth of scrap iron from Alaska to California.) When the Defense Department authorized its three forces to spend $10 million a year reclaiming their scrap, the Navy's Pensacola Air Station promptly spent $25,000 on a scrap press and $5,000 to install it. Near by was a bigger private press which in ten days' time could have smashed and baled all the scrap the base had. Empire-building bureaucrats have occasionally found it necessary to beat strategic...