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Married. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 37; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, 33; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Handsome, enthusiastic Jock Whitney, heir to a $27,000,000 trust fund, has been an art patron, six-goal polo player, owner of a famed racing stable, board chairman of Freeport Sulphur Co., backer of Gone With the Wind and stage hit Life With Father; he is now a dollar-a-year man with his friend Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Married to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus in 1930, he was divorced in 1940, paid a reported...
...Lost. In Freeport, L.I., a thief entered a dentist's waiting room, made off with two smoking stands, left a quart of sauerkraut in exchange. In Manhattan, police arrested a clothing-store burglar wrapped up in his loot. The loot: five women's dresses, four playsuits, 137 pairs of socks, 70 pairs of stockings, 39 pairs of anklets...
...extracting magnesium at the rate of 12,000 tons a year-26 times as much as in 1929. This spring Dow tapped a new source which has stirred everyone's imagination : it began mining sea water for magnesium at a great $15,000,000 plant at Freeport, Tex., which by year's end will be sucking in 12,000,000 gallons a day (enough water for a city of 120,000) and turning out 50 tons of metal-a rate of some 18,000 tons a year. This is 50% more than Dow's Michigan wells...
...America and three other firms for conspiring with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie to hold down U. S. production through patent control (TIME, Feb. 10). Dow produced the nation's 6,500 tons last year from Michigan brine wells, is now building a plant at Freeport, Tex., to extract another 6,500 tons a year from the Gulf's salt water. When the Freeport and Kaiser-Reilly plants are going full blast, U. S. production will jump to at least 25,000 tons a year, four times the U. S.'s 1940 output and about equal...
Some new industries cropped up too. Texas got a $7,000,000 airplane factory at Grand Prairie, a $10,000,000 airplane assembly plant at Garland, a plant to assemble four-motored Army bombers at Fort Worth. Dow Chemical Co. is spending $15,000,000 on a plant at Freeport, Tex. for extracting magnesium from Gulf water. Manufacture of toluol (for TNT) from petroleum was begun by Shell Oil Co. at its Houston refinery; a new $10,760,000 toluol plant was also under construction at Baytown, Tex. by Humble Oil. Another defense-born baby of the oil industry...