Word: paperboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company and stock options, could dilute per-share earnings by as much as 35% if converted into common. Chandler expects potential profits from new products to help make up for any dilution. Among them: plastic-coated punch cards that would last longer than present business-machine cards, and paperboard containers for oil. In Chandler's office are six paperboard containers, shaped like milk cartons, which have held oil for a year. Said Chandler: "This company is in the right place at the right time...
Flying Domes. The U.S. Marine Corps tried geodesic domes made of paperboard, found them so light that a helicopter could lift them and fly them to advance bases, so cheap that they could be left behind if necessary when the troops moved on. (The Marine Corps nicknamed the disposable domes "Kleenex houses," called them "the first major basic improvement in mobile military shelters in the past 2,600 years.") The U.S. needed a trade fair building in Afghanistan that could be flown in by DC-4; Fuller provided one that could be assembled in 48 hours. Covered with polyester Fiberglas...
...actual condition of the patient justify such pessimism? Despite a few soft spots, e.g., carloadings, machine tools, paperboard, the U.S. economy was still operating at peak rates. After the second-best January in history, February auto production is expected to run nearly 4% ahead of last year...
...mile pipeline. TIME Inc. owns 11% of Houston Oil's stock and is joint owner with Houston of the East Texas Pulp and Paper Co. TIME is negotiating to buy 100% of the East Texas Co., which operates a $33 million pulp-and-paper mill (sulphate pulp and paperboard), and Houston's Southwestern Settlement and Development Corp., which owns 585,000 acres of timberland to supply the mill...
...mass-circulation London dailies. He acquired timberlands and mills in Scandinavia, and as war approached turned to Newfoundland, where he bought International Paper's big plant at Corner Brook, and 7,000,000 acres of timber. At war's end, Sir Eric started diversifying into paper bags, paperboard and other products, which now account for almost 20% of his production. The $250 million Bowater empire now employs 16,000 in some 40 companies spread through eight nations of the free world...