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...with his stablemate, Career Boy, and steal France's famous Prix de 1'Arc de Tromphe horse race at Longchamps, C. V. Whitney's gallant little Fisherman sprinted away from the starting wire. Far back Career Boy, Eddie Arcaro aboard, waited for the front-runners to tire in Fisherman's wake...
...million aluminum plant at Point Comfort, Texas. Estimates are that the surging chemical and petrochemical industries will shoot up 70% by 1960, and the Gulf Coast will get much of the expansion. Texas alone will add $260 million worth of new plants in the next two years. Firestone Tire & Rubber is building a huge chemical plant at Orange, Texas; Dow Chemical is expanding its Freeport. Texas plant by $45 million, while Gulf Oil, Foster Wheeler Corp., Lake Charles Chemical Co., Buckeye Cellulose Corp., Coastal Chemical Corp., Union Carbide & Carbon are pouring in millions more for new facilities along the waterway...
BIGGEST IRON PIPEMAKER, Pittsburgh's A. M. Byers Co. (nine-month net sales: $23 million), will be taken over by Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., fifth biggest U.S. rubber company. In stock swap after long negotiations, General Tire has acquired about 75% of Byers' stock, will expand production and push it into General's booming plastics business...
Time to Retire. In Bingham, Utah, workers were threatened with "some disciplinary action" after they lost control of a 1,800-lb. road-grader tire they were rolling to amuse themselves during lunch hour, saw it careen down a mile-deep copper mine and vanish into a roadway, where it rolled to a town three-quarters of a mile away, bounced 30 ft. in the air, ripped open the second floor of a house...
Civil Defense. In East Los Angeles, after alarmed residents reported an explosion, six patrol cars, a detective car, an ambulance and six fire engines raced to the blast area, found Motorist Anthony Gams standing beside his 1947 Chrysler inspecting a blown-out tire...