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...grew out of a firm founded in 1886 that produced the first dry-cell la battery. Union Carbide played a key role in the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Over the years many of the firm's products, including Eveready batteries, Glad bags, Prestone antifreeze and Simoniz car wax, have become popular items in America's households. But the company's best customers are businesses. Major products include polyethylene and other petrochemicals, industrial gases like acetylene and argon, and pesticides. Such industrial lines accounted for 79% of sales...
...motto seems to apply to the company as well as to its product. Last week, in a veritable cloudburst of activity, privately owned Morton Salt 1) announced that it will change its name to Morton International to reflect its spreading interests, 2) acquired the $28 million Simoniz Co., a maker of auto and furniture polishes, and 3) for the first time in its 117-year history issued an annual report, which showed that Morton earned a profit of nearly $6,200,000 on last year's sales of $95 million...
When Billie Sol Estes was tried in Tyler, his lawyers protested TV in vain; the first program opened with a biography of Judge Otis Dunagan. Sponsors included Campbell Soup, Simoniz, Reader's Digest, and the Dallas Morning News. When Stripper Candy Barr got 15 years for possession of one marijuana cigarette, the judge was none other than Deer Hunter Brown; the question in Dallas was how any juror could vote for acquittal when his wife had watched the curvesome defendant...
Among the U.S. products still standing watch over their good names, still demanding Upper-Case billing in news stories, novels and shopping columns: Erector Set, Band-Aid, Dixie cup, JellO, Jeep, Laundromat, Kleenex. Deepfreeze, Levi's (blue jeans). Dry Ice, Simoniz, Spray Net and Zipper...
...fastest automobile race ever run, Miami's Jim Rathmann drove his Simoniz Special around the steep-banked, 2½-mile track of the new Daytona International Speedway at an average speed of 170.261 m.p.h. to win the 100-mile U.S. Automobile Club championship race, breaking his own closed-course record, which he set by winning the Monza, Italy 500-mile race last year. The speed of the race brought death to Wisconsin's George Amick, 34, No. 2 in last year's Indianapolis race. On the last lap, his Bowes Seal Fast Special went out of control...