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...fabulous rise of local favorites. Texans have seen obscure Delhi Oil Corp., whose stock sold for $1.10 in 1944, run up to $38. Dewey & Almy Chemical (Cambridge, Mass.), which sold at eleven in 1949, has reached the equivalent of 57½. Chicago's Emhart Manufacturing Co. (flexible plastic bottles) has soared from $50 to $80 in three months. Californians recount the wonders of Signal Oil & Gas Co.'s four-year rise from 85 to the equivalent...
Tinless Cans. Reynolds Metals Co. announced two ways to make cans without using scarce tin. One method uses heavy aluminum foil coated with plastic material; the other uses steel coated on either side with aluminum. Price: "very competitive" with tin cans...
University maintenance men will place bullet-proof plastic over a stained glass window in the tomb of the University's most generous benefactor, Gordon McKay, "as soon as possible" to protect it from any renewed attacks by vandals, Irving B. Parkhurst, director of the Department of Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday...
...University, which is entrusted through McKay's will with the care of the tomb, is not taking any chances. Its maintenance men went to Pittsfield earlier this month to place a temporary board over the window, and plan to return soon to put in the transparent plastic covering...
...Manhattan convention of the American Chemical Society (18,000 chemists), Dr. James Bryant Conant, chemist and president of Harvard, looked into his crystal ball (a plastic one, he explained, in deference to modern chemistry). It told him what the world would be like after the next 50 years. ¶Atomic war has been averted, though by "the narrowest of margins." At the end of the century, "Paris, Berlin, London, New York, Moscow still stand physically undamaged by any enemy action since World War II." Communist regimes still hold much of the world, but both Marxism and its opponents have been...