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Word: seadrift (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry's steel drilling pipe comes in by barge at $9 per ton v. $17 per ton by rail. The savings are so impressive that Union Carbide & Carbon has dredged a nine-mile cut to the waterway to ship goods from its chemical plant at Seadrift, Texas, while Chemstrand Corp. dredged a 22-mile channel near Tallahassee, Fla., to give its huge nylon plant access...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Intracoastal Waterway | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

This week Union Carbide & Carbon's Bakelite Co. brought the prediction closer to reality. President Howard S. Bunn announced the biggest single expansion program in the history of the plastics industry. The company will spend some $100 million on three new poly plants (in Texas City and Seadrift, Texas, and Torrance, Calif.), thus double present U.S. output- and more than triple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHEMICALS: The Poly Pushers | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

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