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Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co., which runs the plant for the AEC, says that total employment is now about 4,800. This big drop from the wartime peak of 12,000 represents more automatic machinery, not decreased production. Few of the 4,800 workers are actually inside the production plants themselves. The buildings have four floors, each packed with roaring motors and screaming gas pumps. Some workers pedal on bicycles through the earsplitting loneliness. In the whole enormous plant, which runs continuously, there are only 370 men per shift, including the guards and the laboratory staff...
MacLennan and Glendinning took a container about as big as a grapefruit, filled it with fire-extinguishing fluid (carbon tetrachloride) and placed a small explosive charge inside. This "bomb" and a small pressure-sensitive switch to set it off were put in a fuel tank. Then the tank's dangerous vapors were ignited by an electric spark. In the first split second, the expanding pressure wave tripped the switch. The "bomb" burst, sprayed its contents into the tank and snuffed out the newborn explosion...
...companies have expanded as much in the last five years as Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. The world's biggest maker of plastics and the second biggest chemical company (first: E. I. du Pont de Nemours), Union Carbide has pumped $500 million into new plants and products. Last week Union Carbide announced another whopping expansion. From the Prudential and Metropolitan Life insurance companies it borrowed $300 million to step up its output of petroleum products, plastics, iron alloys and its new wool-like synthetic fiber, Dynel. If it can get materials, Union Carbide will build at the rate of more...
...Carey of the International Union of Electrical Workers have been feuding bitterly over 30,000 former members of the expelled United Electrical Workers Union. Last July, the problem was sharply illustrated when three C.I.O. unions, chemical, electrical and oil, battled for the right to organize employees of the National Carbon Co. in Cleveland. As a result of this row, the workers voted "no union." The C.I.O. executive board drew up a plan under which the national organization or an arbitrator will assign disputed plants to one union or another, forbid rivals from campaigning against the chosen union in plant elections...
...Carbon Copy. Onstage, the Times-Herald was almost a completely new show. One of the new regime's first acts was to turn Page 3-the "rape and murder page"-into a stodgy collection of straight news. Says Waldrop: "We want to be a little bit stuffy." But as the paper began to look more & more like a carbon copy of the Tribune, staff morale ebbed. Many Times-Herald veterans quit, among them the sport editor, editorial cartoonist, picture editor, and night city editor...