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TITANIUM has finally been marked by the Government for a big new expansion program. The General Services Administration is ready to sign contracts with Du Pont, Dow Chemical and Union Carbide & Carbon for the output of three new plants costing $80 million. The plants, plus earlier contracts, will boost production from 2,800 to 32,500 tons a year, but this will still be far from enough for aircraft and other uses. Estimated needs by 1960: 150,000 tons a year...
PREMIUM-gasoline competition is getting hotter. The Texas Co. is putting on the market Top Octane Sky Chief Super-Charged, which it claims will increase efficiency, cut down carbon deposits and extend engine life as much as 60% through use of a special compound (Petrox...
What Future? Quiz show thinking has become so threadbare that the newest of the shows, ABC's Who's the Boss?, is virtually a carbon copy of the four-year-old What's My Line? In this program panelists are faced with the problem of guessing, not what the contestant (a private secretary) does, but what her boss does...
...Billion Dollar Club" got a new corporate member last week. Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., whose 1953 gross soared to $1,025,833,041, up 7% over 1952, became the 33rd U.S. corporation to rack up sales of more than $1 billion. One reason for the rise: Union Carbide's rapid expansion in the production of plastics...
...Arnold's apparatus should extend the "Carbon 14 calendar" back from 23,000 to 42,000 B.C. and spot, within 37 years, the date, for instance, when slope-browed Neanderthal men roasted a wooly rhinoceros...