PLANS FOR TOMORROW 



more, the new Ernst Bischoff plant will continue to 

 make cellulose plastics, and the new Memphis Mayfair 

 Company will fabricate plastics into consumer goods. 

 With cotton linters for cellulose and ground wood for 

 fillers and plywood for laminating, here are all the mak- 

 ings of a thriving plastics community. The recently dis- 

 covered Mississippi oil fields are providing crude for 

 the new stills of Delta Refining Company, and other 

 new enterprises run the scale from cotton pickers and 

 other farm machinery at International Harvester to 

 frozen strawberries from the new freezing plant of the 

 Braun Packing Company. 



Many plans at Memphis an electrochemical project, 

 pottery and chinaware from west Tennessee clays, cot- 

 tonseed and soybean oil refining and margarine manu- 

 facture, textiles, and machinery hinge upon low-cost 

 water transportation, a two-way advantage both in tap- 

 ping raw materials and in reaching consuming markets. 

 The inland waterways of the South are a strong second 

 string to the transportation bow. From Corpus Chris ti 

 they stretch across the Gulf Coast to Tallahassee, 

 branching out to Houston, Bay City, Lake Charles, New 

 Orleans, and Baton Rouge, then on up the Atlantic 

 Coast through Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, 

 Wilmington, and Norfolk to New York. Up the Missis- 

 sippi Valley they tap St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, 

 even Duluth and the Great Lakes. Eastward they reach 

 Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Via the Alabama and Ten- 



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