SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



primary sources. Cyanamid could find no major oil 

 company willing to sell its by-product gases on the 

 long-term basis essential to justify investment in a petro- 

 chemical plant. Our marriage to Texas was inevitable; 

 but, believe me, it was no shot-gun wedding." 



More effectively than the wisest State Industrial 

 Commission or the most energetic Chamber of Com- 

 merce, such joint chemical enterprises will promote the 

 postwar industrialization of the South. Just as raw ma- 

 terials draw chemical makers Southward, so their prod- 

 ucts are a magnet attracting other industries. 



Air Reduction, producers of hydrogen, and Wesson, 

 refiners of cottonseed oil, have teamed up in the South 

 Texas Cotton Oil Company to make hydrogenated cot- 

 tonseed oil, which is vegetable lard. At Pensacola, the 

 American Cyanamid Company has a department of its 

 own right in the rosin plant of Newport Industries, 

 where it treats rosin with alkalies from its subsidiary at 

 Corpus Christi to make paper-sizing materials. Next 

 door, U. S. Industrial Chemicals takes in this same 

 rosin, pumped over hot and liquid, and makes synthetic 

 varnish resins. Caustic soda from Diamond Alkali and 

 fats from the stockyards have brought to Dallas a 

 Procter & Gamble soap factory. By reverse reasoning, 

 Reichhold Chemicals has built a new phenol plant at 

 Tuscaloosa because a neighboring paper mill will buy 

 their by-product sodium sulfide. 



In the South a lot of new chemicals will presently be 

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