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Temporary Dips. In addition to expanding basic lines, Doan has also worked to plug plastics, which he feels is the chemical field with the most promise. Among Dow's plastic consumer items: radio cases, toys, housewares. One likely new project is volume production of titanium, the new wonder metal, if Dow can bring the cost down from the present $5 to $7 a Ib.; another is a big expansion in saran fibers for use in auto seat covers, draperies, etc. In the past few months, there has been some softening in the chemical market as a whole, but President...
...completed a script, Violets Are Blue (about an unwanted rosebush). Although he is now making $1,000 a week (roughly 40 times his silversmithing salary), he still lives simply in a Manhattan apartment, drives the motorcycle he bought from his friend, Actor Marlon Brando, still patches his trousers with plastic cement. He spends his weekends flower-watching on a newly acquired 2½-acre field in Rockland, N.Y. "Next thing," he says in his timid Peepersish voice, "I think I'll buy me a bunch of cows...
Rain Hat. In Richmond, Va., the M. & B. Headwear Co. began sales of what it called the first nonshrinkable waterproof hat for men. Nonstitched, the cloth of the hat is laminated together and covered with a thin, transparent coat of plastic. Price...
...Scented Plastics. In New York, Plastron Inc. put on the market flower-scented plastic shower and window curtains. Developed by Monsanto Chemical Co., the scents are blended in while the plastics are being made, are guaranteed to smell like roses, carnations or cedar for several months. Price: $1.98 for the shower curtain, $3.98 to $4.49 for curtain sets...
Glowing Brains. Physically, rats are not much like humans. Monkeys are better. Sitting strapped to miniature pilots' seats they look like small, worried old men. Sometimes when they ride with G, they have round windows cut in their skulls and covered with transparent plastic. A strong ultraviolet light is played on their brains and a fluorescent chemical is injected into their bloodstreams. Then during the ride the doctors can tell when the treated blood has reached the brains: the blood vessels glow brilliantly...