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...year, it now has the highest profit margin of any National division. Next, Bierwirth paid $6,700,000 for a 25% interest in U.S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc. (industrial alcohol, antifreeze, resins, etc.), has since merged the company with National. He then bought a 20% interest in Intermountain Chemical Corp. (soda ash), and for $4,500.000 bought Algonquin Chemical Co., Inc. (caustic soda, sulphuric acid, chlorine...
...PACIFIC Intermountain Express Co. (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950) expects to jump from eighth to first place among U.S. truckers if a deal to buy West Coast Fast Freight, Inc. is okayed by the I.C.C. With a combined fleet of more than 3,000 trucks, operating between Chicago and the West Coast, P.I.E. expects the companies' combined gross to hit $45 million this year, $4,600,000 more than the No. 1 U.S. trucker, Associated Transport, Inc., took in last year...
...Sportswriter Jack Carberry for being the faithful apostle of D.U. athletics. Said Carberry: "The hilltop school has really and truly come out of the dream cloud in which, athletically speaking, it has been sleeping." Said Robert W. Selig, chairman of the board of trustees and an executive of Fox Intermountain Theaters: "We have started with a new regime. We have a winning policy . . . We will . . . attract students with athletic abilities to our campus. We know you can't pull a wagon without horses...
...last week, Intermountain could report real progress. "First off," says Dr. Boyce, "we licked the homesickness problem." Instead of using monochromes of traditional grey or tan, he painted their schoolrooms with "the desert colors the children know-turquoise blue, sandstone red and sage green." He organized sports and hobby groups in knitting, beading, pottery, carving and square dancing...
...With all Intermountain's beginners, teachers had to use every bit of their ingenuity to make sense of their courses. English teachers cut out carefully labeled pictures of beds, chairs, tables, houses, barns and animals, and pasted them on the walls. Arithmetic teachers played grocery store, tried to relate their blackboard figures to matters their pupils would understand ("We must keep these numbers in a row just like rows of soldiers, or just like horses walking to a water hole"). Counselors pinned up posters that hammered at the homely rules of hygiene...