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"This man opened my eyes in Texas" (Visit to Bow plant revealed safe handling of ethylene and propylene oxides) "I was well aware of the fact that ethylene oxide would give me better results than my present intermediate. Still, I hesitated to change. After all, handling it was rot the easiest thing in the world. And what about storing? A cloud of misconception seemed to surround the whole issue. "So I was impressed when the Dow man offered to take rne through the Texas plant to see how Dow takes care of ethylene oxide as well as propylene oxide. It was quite a revelation. "My storage and handling worries were licked as a result of that Texas visit. And today I'm taking full advantage of ethylene oxide as an intermediate and profiting with tank-car quantities." THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, Midland, Michigan, Dept. GD816B-1. YOU CAN DEPEND ON DOW OCT. 2 8, 1957 C&EN 35

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"This man opened my eyes in Texas" (Visit to Bow plant revealed safe handling of ethylene and propylene oxides)

" I was well aware of t h e fact that ethylene oxide would give me better results than my present intermediate. Still, I hesitated to change. After all, handling it was r o t the easiest thing in the world. And what about storing? A cloud of misconception seemed to surround the whole issue.

"So I was impressed when the Dow man offered to take rne through the Texas plant to see how Dow takes care

of ethylene oxide as well as propylene oxide. It was quite a revelation. "My storage and handling worries were licked as a result of that Texas visit. And today I'm taking full advantage of ethylene oxide as an intermediate and profiting with tank-car quantities." THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, Midland, Michigan, Dept. GD816B-1.

YOU CAN DEPEND ON D O W OCT. 2 8, 1957 C & E N 3 5