Word: rohm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strasbourg; other German companies are busy making shoes, office equipment, and engineering and precision instruments. America's Timken Roller-Bearing has built the largest foreign-owned plant (1,000 employees) at Colmar; Remington Rand employs 311 persons to produce electric shavers at Huttenheim; Minoc, a subsidiary of Rohm & Haas, makes ion exchangers at Lauterbourg. Wrigley will enter Alsace next year, turn out three brands of chewing gum at a new $4 million plant near Colmar. Near the Swiss border, Swiss-owned companies have put up plants to make drugs, soups, elevators and caffeine-less coffee...
...World War II. As for the anxious new investors, they hope to profit by the improvement in General Aniline's prospects already begun under research-minded President Dr. Jesse Werner. Many are also aware that two other German-owned companies seized by the U.S. in World War II (Rohm & Haas and Shering Corp.) jumped ahead dramatically after they were sold to private enterprise...
...showcase industrial shelter has been developed by Rohm & Haas, manufacturers of plastics and chemicals, at their Bristol, Pa., plant and at factories in Philadelphia, Knoxville, Tenn., and Houston. The reinforced-concrete shelters protect against blast as well as fallout. The Bristol shelter lies under 40 inches of radiation-resistant material, can house and feed 1.500 employees for two weeks. Water is drawn from underground wells, and a pulsating communications center is equipped to send and receive short-wave messages. The shelter can withstand blast and fallout from a 20-megaton bomb five miles away...