Introduction-Resources for the Chemical Industry in the United States

FOR THE CHEMICAL

NATURAL RESOURCES C. V. Holland and P. D. Strickler

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FINANCIAL RESOURCES D. R. Cawthorne

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MARKETS FOR CHEMICAL EXPANSION H. E. Wessel

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T h e West North Central States, comprising Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Missouri, occupy some 515,000 square miles of the United States and embrace a population of approximately 14,000,000 people. This is the great “breadbasket” of our country. Products of the farm comprise almost three fourths of the total value of all products coming out of the area. The chemical industry has thus far not found its way into these states as prolifically as elsewhere in the United States. Based on “value added by manufacture,” some $322,000,000 worth of chemicals is produced annually in plants in these states; two, North and South Dakota, November 1954

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produce no significant amounts of chemicals. By comparison, the one state of New Jersey, whose chemical industry ranks first among all its industries, based on “value added by manufacture,” counts $625,000,000annually in chsmicals. The papers in this symposium cover the “classical” resources - financial, natural, transportation, and power-which this area has t o offer t o the chemical industry. Finally, the people themselves and industry itself are resources t o the chemical industry. The broader aspects of these resources are explored and developed t o complete the symposium. F. J. RAUSCHER

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