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Top of the news What's ahead for vinyl makers: Slowdown or end of the road? Uncertainty beclouds industry as OSHA weight testimony on proposal for sharp cut in VCM emissions within plants Scores of chemical and plastics com panies will be on tenterhooks during the next few weeks or months while Secre tary of Labor Peter Brennan and his asso ciates are deciding what safety standards will be required in U.S. plants that pro duce vinyl chloride monomer, process it into polyvinyl chloride resins and mold those resins into plastic pipe, phonograph records, sports car tops and vinyl floor ing. The immediate question: How much VCM gas should be permitted as an air contaminant in all those plants? Until this question is resolved, management people in this S65-billion/year business will not know whether to invest additional capital in plant expansion, research and market ing programs. Moreover, their suppliers will not be able to project how much eth ylene, chlorine, plasticizers and molding equipment will be needed. In last week's public hearing in Wash ington, it became clear that this vinyl fac tory hygiene matter has become the big gest and most controversial case that has yet been faced by the Labor Dept.'s three-year-old Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Because some vi nyl plant workers have contracted a rare and fatal cancer of the liver (angiosar coma), OSHA in April issued a tem porary regulation that the VCM concen tration in the air in such plants must not exceed 50 parts per million. Now the agency is proposing as a permanent rule that the limit be set at "no detectable level," which in practice would mean a maximum of only about 1 ppm. Costs, Jobs, Health: Such an "exces sively and unrealistically restrictive" stan dard is not technologically feasible, and its adoption "would shut down the indus try," according to Anton Vittone, presi dent of B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co. and chairman of a special PVC standards committee set up by the Society of the Plastics Industry. As the industry's principal spokesman in last week's hearing. Vittone proposed that the present temporary emergency standard of 50 ppm. for PVC plants be lowered in several stages to 25 ppm. by Oct. 5, '75, with further imposition of a time-weighted averag. limit of 10 ppm. Standards for VCM production, he said, could be more restrictive--10 ppm. by Oct. '75, and a time-weighted average maximum of 5 ppm. Meeting these suggested standards would be costly and difficult, Vittone said. "These proposals represent am bitious, difficult levels of operational ex posure dependent on large expenditures of money, reduced capacity, and the de velopment of technology not currently in hand." But trying to meet the no-detectablelevel standard would be prohibitively ex pensive if not impossible, he warned. Putting OSHA's proposed regulation into effect, he added, "could displace not only the 6,500 VCM and PVC production workers but also hundreds of thousands of other employees in companies that use PVC." Cutbacks and Renoration: A contrary view was presented in a Labor Dept, re port asserting that the no-detectable-level standard's only over-all impact on the PVC industry would be curtailed produc tion. The report's authors conceded, how ever, that some "marginal" companies might need federal loans to finance the plant alterations necessary to meet the more stringent standard. That standard was defended at the hearing by Daniel Boyd, director of OSHA's Office of Standards Development-where OSHA staff members will analyze the exhaustive and conflicting testimony given by the 147 scheduled wit nesses during the five-day hearing. Boyd emphasized that he regards the no-detectable-level standard as only a proposal, but added: "It represents our best judgment based on the information available to us on May 10. We do not claim to know all the answers to all the problems associated with employee expo sure to VCM. Iam... asking for your help, your input, so that we can promul gate a standard based on the best and most recent information available." Gas Masks, Chromatographs: Under the Labor Dept.'s proposal, the first step for employers would be to reduce VCM emissions by adopting new engineering controls and production methods "as soon as feasible." Boyd explained that OSHA'S BOYD: 'As soon as feasible' will depend on cost and available technology. standard `would shut down the industry; URW'S BOMMARITO: 'The medical facts are in, and the problem is now political.' July 3, 1974 CHEMICAL WEEK 7 BFG25674 23480001 Top of the news feasibility refers to both technological and economic considerations: "On the one hand, does the technology exist that would allow the employer to achieve compliance? And on the other. What are the costs associated with the application of these technologies?" If the very low level of VCM concen tration could not be attained immedi ately, employees would be required to wear air-filtering devices known as con tinuous-flow and demand respirators. Commented Boyd: "We recognize that respirators are not popular with employ ees and that employees may have diffi culty wearing them 40 hours a week. However, in balancing the feasibility of engineering controls and work practices, respirators and the hazards associated with VCM, we feel that respirators are a necessary temporary means of avoiding employee exposure to VCM." As to in-plant monitoring, OSHA shied away from designating any specific tech niques for measuring VCM concentration in the air. "But a gas chromatograph is fully capable of measuring VCM at the levels required," Boyd stated. Methods Are Optional: OSHA's pro posal is essentially only a performance standard, Boyd pointed out. "We recog nize," he said, "that each employer should be allowed to utilize the engineer ing controls and work practices that are best suited for his plant. However, the proper application of ventilation systems and further enclosure of exposure sources appears to be a rational approach. It is entirely possible that a reduction of the 10-12% unreacted monomer content, which often occurs at the polymerization 8 CHEMICAL WEEK July 3, 1974 stage, will reduce some of the VCM ex posure problems associated with PVC." More aggressive support for the no-de tectable-level proposal came from orga nized labor. Union officials denied that such a standard would necessarily result in any extensive shutdown of PVC plants, but declared that even the loss of many jobs would be preferable to continued ex posure of employees to higher VCM con centrations. Peter Bommarito, president of the United Rubber Workers and chairman of AFL-CIO's health and safety committee, demanded Congressional investigation of industry efforts to stir up "hysterical" op position to OSHA's proposal. "Today, this nation will be black mailed," Bommarito averred. "Manage ment will tell you that the proposed stan dard--which they assume without hard data is not feasible--means an end to 1.6 million or more jobs and national disas ter. This country survived for nearly 200 years without PVC and we can survive in the future without it." Bommarito suggested the possibility of a health hazard that had not previously been discussed in connection with PVC: the chance that even a trace of VCM in a pregnant woman's bloodstream might damage the fetus. Evaluating the Evidence: Bommarito asserted that "the medical facts are now in, and the problem is now in the social and political arena." But industry repre sentatives said that the medical and scien tific data are far from conclusive. In fact, one industry spokesman con tended, it's conceivable that OSHA's present temporary standard of 50 ppm. may be entirely adequate. Researchers may never know whether it is or not, he continued, because it takes 11-20 years for angiosarcoma to develop, and so it's possible that the liver ailments turning up now may have been initiated before man ufacturing operations provided the present degree of protection for workers. Nevertheless, OSHA is expected to rely to a considerable extent on data devel oped by Director Cesare Maltoni of the Istituto Di Oncologia, a tumor research institute, in Bologna, Italy, and by scien tists at Industrial BIO-TEST Laboratories (Northbrook, III.). The work at Bologna was sponsored by several large European producers of VCM; the studies at North brook were commissioned by the Manu facturing Chemists Assn. In both cases, the researchers have reported that angio sarcoma was contracted by rats and mice that had been exposed to VCM at various levels down to 50 ppm. "On the basis of what facts we have been given," testified Dr. Herman Kraybill of the National Cancer Institute, "VCM appears to be a potent hepatocarcinogen. If man responds to low-level ex posure to VCM as has the rodent, a lowlevel continuous exposure of 50 ppm. for man would have a high probability for inducing liver cancer." Deciding on Dicey Data: Jerome Heck man, general counsel for SPI, summed up the industry feelings as to the inadequacy of present scientific information: "Many of these decisions will necessarily have to be based on the rules of probability rather than irrefutable fact. Much of the scientific data obtained by researchers to date is quite inconclusive. A great deal of data remains to be acquired and eval uated. At this precarious state of our knowledge, we believe that misplaced re liance on mere suspicions rather than proved data, or precipitous and emo tional reaction to such incomplete infor mation, together with a narrowly con strued interpretation of interests, could lead to major economic consequences." As the hearing ended, Washington ob servers were predicting that OSHA would stick with the no-detectable-level limit, with some leeway in timing for older plants to install the necessary safeguards. Meanwhile, the vinyl industry is oper ating at close to 100% of capacity, and nu merous plant expansion projects are un der way. If producers can meet the new standards without an exorbitant increase in manufacturing costs, it would seem reasonable to expect PVC demand to keep right on growing at 10-15%/year (chart, above). BFG25675 2348000; sJa iL, DEPARTMENT BUILDING FOR YOUR APPROVAL FOR YOUR SIGNATURE . Q PER YOUR REQUEST ^^OR YOUR INFORMATION TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION D>*tPARE REPLY FOR MYSIGNATURE RETURN WITH MORE DETAILS ANSWER INVESTIGATE AND REPORT NOTE AND RETURN TO ME NOTE AND SEE ME ABOUT THIS NOTE AND FILE TELEPHONE PLEASE CALL MR. FROM: / DEPT. TRANSlMittal and telephone slip B F G3 972 *B 8/72 PRINTED IN U.S. fO O A A - BFG25676 V K VOL I NO. 3 4077 W. PICO BLVO. LOS ANSaES, CA. 90019 30c Copy JULY, 1974 THE PVC CONTROVERSY ' '--JiX-ru tfJHQgy . jr The Battle Lines Are brNOBRY HASTING* ing of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) from 600 Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) Is a versatile plastic which is ussd in thousands of applications In products In cluding toys, phonograph .to SO ports per million per taining to monitoring and enforcing. Starting on June 25 OSHA started hearings to records, upholstery, pipe, determine at what level to tei packaging, shoes, luggage, set the exposure ceiling of inflatables, swimming VCM. Labor is strongly ad pools, and a myriad of vocating zero concentra other day-to-day essen- tion. (The adoption of this The PVC manufacturers and Its converters (processors) have suddenly been confronted with a devastating dilemma. On April 5. the Occupational Safety and Health Ad ministration (OSHA) adopted a temporary, six month emergency standard lowering the exposure cell could shut down all vinyl chloride plants.) Industry Is pushing for no lower than (Continued on page 20) WC garTCbiildCcrt 1.6 * Preliminary results of an economic impact report conducted for the Society of the Plastics Industry by the economic consulting firm ot Arthur D. Little, Inc., Indicate that at least 1.6 million Americans may lose their jobs if an unrealistic occupational health regula tion, limiting worker ex posure to vinyl chloride, forces a shutdown of the irv dustry.. Little says a minimum of 1.6 million jobs would fee lost if the producers cf vinyl chioride, an indust'ial chemical, and potyvi.iyi chloride (PVC), a widely used plastic resin, were forced to shut dowi because the tecmolog1 dees not exist to meet a "rv detectable level" of ex posure. in addition, the cos in terms of lost sales ant . (Continued on page 2C NORTHROP IS CLOSING ITS HUENEME BARGE PLANT On the heels of claims and counter-claims and suits and counter suits, Northrop Corp. announced on June 25 the cessation of eit production at Its Northrop-Hueneme fiber gfaee barge plant. The phasing out end RQufdatfon wW be completed within 99 days. , -V-- - ... /: THIS BARGE was produced for Pacific Far East Une tor use on its LASH stripe. Vs ae Mg ae a six room house. ' that a counter suit is now being processed to force Pacific Far East to honor the terms of their contract He said that 131 of the InMai order tar 200 bargee have already been defivered end accepted. At peafjt production, the construction of these barges used 50,000 pounds to 3 O to U\ Os -o The dispute resulted per week of polyurethane when Pacific Far East Line AAV|.>;; stopped accepting delivery team. The processes used taduded spray up, hand lay of barges In April. Northrop up, (opining bonding and has started action to force sandwich constructing. acceptance of delivery. Pacific Far East instituted a GJThe ma|or West Coed. suppliers who wifi be affect suit tor $102 million darn ing non-conformance in the ed by Northrop dosing are: 00 Cargifi Resins in Lynwood. delivered barges. CadL - Polyester Resin; API John Flores, the Systems to Pacoima, Cad. manager of the Northrop Hueneme operation, stated - polyurethane foarm,; fCondrwad on page 20) *-9 I PVC Ban. . . (Continued from page 1) production would amount to at least $65 billion. Employing an Inputoutput economic model for its analysis, A.D. Little was able to estimate the impact of the PVC resin Industry itself, and in addition the effect on other major segments of the U.S. economy by defining the in teraction of the PVC In dustry with primary, secon dary and final demand markets. For example, the un availability of PVC resin would have a major effect on the automotive industry, which utilizes PVC in the form of insulated wire and cable, component parts, upholstery and many other products. The automotive and con struction industries would be the hardest hit, with losses respectively of at least 600,000 lost jobs and $35 billion in lost sales; and for the construction in dustry, at least 500,000 lost C&GPLASTICSJNC. CUSTOM INJECTION MOLDERS of NYLON - ACETAL - POLYCARBONATE and all other engineered thermo plastics, including glass, teflon, and other filled materials. C & G PLASTICS, INC. 12715 DAPHNE ST. HAWTHORNE, CA. 90250 (213) 756-8367 If It's jobs and $14 billion In lost sales. In May, the Occupational Safety and Health Ad ministration (OSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor proposed that exposure of employes to vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) in workplace air should be reduced to "no detectable level." VCM has been link ed in recent months with higher than normal inci dence of angio sarcoma of the liver, a rare type of cancer, among previously highly-exposed workers. "The effect on the nation's economy and on the social order in terms of the human hardship it would cause would be catastrophic," said Ralph L. Harding, Jr., president of SPI. "We expect that the final results from A.D. Little will show a potential loss in excess of two million jobs. This is all the more regret table in light of the fact that the industry is taking every step possible to reduce worker exposure to VCM. "While the VCM and PVC industries fully recognize their obligation to reduce worker exposure to as low a level as is possible, the proposed OSHA standard is technologically infeasible to achieve, even with the highly sophisticated methods of inplant control that have been developed by the industry over the years," Mr. Harding said. "If the proposed 'no detectable level' standard is adopted," Mr. Harding continued, "the vinyl chloride and polyvinyl chloride resin producing in dustries will be forced to close down immediately." Sock It to Em! While many esoteric formulae for managing and purchasing in a shortage economy were presented at a panel discussion at the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, Richard McKIbben, secretary and plant manager of Modern Plastic Co., Compton, Calif., offered one time-honored, yet simple approach: browbeat the supplier. "We had one purchase order returned saying it couldn't be honored," said the manager of the custom injection molding plant which employs 180. "I then called the customer and told him our predicament. Both of us got together and harrangued the supplier. The result Is we got enough material to keep the customer out the the soup for a couple of months. Battle Lines. . . (Continued from page II 50 PPM. What started the whole thing was a February 15 hearing which followed a disclosure by B.F. Goodrich Co. of the deaths of several employees from angio sar coma of the liver which Is described as a rare form of cancer. The average ex posure time^for the Goodrich workers was 20 years. Since the hearing, some employees of Union Car bide, Firestone, and Goodyear have also been reported to have died of angio sarcoma of the liver. Although tests on animals so far have not caused tumors at concen trations of 50 PPM, there are suspicions that even this level is excessive and hence the battle lines are drawn. It should be clear that all cases of detected angio sarcoma have been employees of resin producers and not fabricators. To date OSHA has detected zero concen tration of VCM in fabricators' plants. However, the SPI Com mittee which is supporting the industry position needs all the facts. If your plant has been monitored, send a report of the findings to Lloyd Darden, Western Manager, The Society of the Plastics Industry, 611 S. Catalina Street, Los Angeles, California 90005. Northrop. . . (Continued from page 1) Hastings Plastics Co. in Santa Monica, Calif. polyester adhesives; Owens Corning Fiberglas, Los Angeles - fiber glass mat and woven roving; and Lasco Industries, Anaheim, Calif. - molded corrugated fiberglass sheets. Northrop's Chad Brown will handle liquidation of In ventory. Potential customers for the large Inventory of materials and plant equip ment should contact Brown at (805) 488-6461. The fiberglass honeycomb techniques used at Hueneme were originally developed by the comany's Ventura Division in the manufacture of fiberglass components for aircraft. BFG25678 2348100 Call TitYs^AFlUOR -mrwLMmzsmi WEST COAST PLASTICS (213)322-8030 6122 Washington Boulevard / Culver City, California 90230 / (213) 870-7733 20 - July, 1974 - Pacific Coast PLASTICS & RUBBER C Assistant Deans Named At l Three new assistant deans in expanded research to find out C. Friday a academic affairs have been ap pointed at the University of North Carolina. Dr. George Leasing, associate professor of En- glish, has been named assistant From dean for honors. Dr. Lewis Lip- e, * sits, professor how hazardous Us use may be to the public. Three members of the chen> istry faculty at Duke University have received promotions, in cluding one to the rank of full professor. Advanced to a tua professor ship is Dr. James F. Bonk. Drs. Charles H. Lochmuller and Ned A. Porter have been promoted ernors. Parr is o ton of the Chemical S major editoi en other ch< is the autbo arly publics a Sloan Fel Fellow and . bChOOlS of political sci ence, is the new assistant dean for experimental LENSING LIPSITZ STEIN PARK to associate professors. Bonk was voted one of the ten "outstanding" professors by Energy i and special studies. Dr. Thomas Stein, associate professor of rec reation administration, has been named assistant dean in the General College, A1 three will continue to teach. As assistant dean of honors, Lensing will work with the vari- ous honors programs for stu dents in the General College (freshmen and sophomores) and College of Arts and Sciences (juniors and seniors). Lipdtz will oversee the inter disciplinary bachelor's degree program sind will work with de partments in developing and evaluating educational experi mentation. Stein will assist Associate Dean Donald Jicha with the academic advisory system in the General College and also will serve as a student advisor. i_, *\r -S3182001 Threat Of Cancer Is Seen Duke undergraduates in 1966. He teaches advanced beginning courses in chemistry, serves as supervisor of freshman instruc tion in the chemistry depart ment, as departmental execu tive officer and is the academic adviser to Duke athletes. Lochmuller, a graduate of Manhattan College and holder of master's and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Fordham University, came to Duke in 1969. Porter, also at Duke since Keep Pit NEW YOB who are dob the energy c are doing tin F. M. War Piano Techn that pianos tune due to perature am homes not Ik tioned to th used to be, In Fire-Resistant Pajamas 1969, is a graduate of Prince ton University and, earned his Pb.D. at Harvard. and humidity stant year to hold their ton er. By BETTY W. MUSHAK Herald Staff Writer -T9 PINEHURST - A doctor attending a conference in Pinehurst said Tuesday that C staking children's pajamas flame resistant may expose o children to a substance known to cause cancer. Dr. Benjamin Van Duuren called for an investigation of the possible dangers by the i Food and Drug Administration. Van Duuren spoke at a conference on the public health implications of components of plastics manufacture. The conference, which ends today, is sponsored by the National Institute o f Environmental while the fibers are molten and combined so that it is unlikely they leach out, Lombardo said. In addition, Lombardo said, the substances put on cloth after it is woven to make it flame retardant are not permanent. "They all wash out," he said. "Even the reactive ones wash out." The things given off are considered to be harmless in the substances now approved for use in flame retardants, Lombardo said. The cancer-causing agent, called BCME, was identified through vinyl chloride workers who had cancer. Dr. David problems and it was dropped. Operating room workers exposed to TCE showed an increase in stillbirths, miscarriages and certain types of cancers. TCE, which resembles vinyl chlorides in some of its activities in the body, is widely used in industry and in some dry-cleaning operations. Van Duurena called for vastly Dr. Robert G. Parr, former chairman of the chemistry de partment at Jobos Hopkins Uni versity, has been named .Wil liam Band Kenan Jr. professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina. The appointment was an nounced by Chancellor rereoee Taylor following approval of JJniversity President William Now... Gi FALSE Moro A denture sdh FASTEETH* P< this: 1) Helps ho era loaer, firmer them mors comi you eat mors nsti Use FASTEETH Powder. Dentu essential to hsaltl regsulUarliyy*. GOINGG Health Sciences. Ball, director of the National Dr. Pat Lombardo of the Institute o f Environmental Food and Drug Administration Health Sciences in the- Research (FDA), who is also at the conference, said that i a practical terms, what Vaa Duuren suggests is not likely. Triangle Park, recently testified before a congressional committee on the need for limiting exposure of workers to c--------------- s Van Duuren said additives BCME. used to make the pajama cloth permanent press and flame resistant could react chemically with perspiration and urine and Ball said BCME Is used in one step of a certain type of plastics manufacture. He said it is possible for worker exposure RUCI release a substance that is to be cut to xero with proper known to cause cancer. controls. Lombardo said that In a presentation Tuesday, substances used to treat cotton Van Duuren questioned the actually combine with the safety of trichloroethylene cotton and no longer exist on (TCE), a gas used in aerosol the material in a form that propellants and oral surgery. i would react TCE was once used as a In synthetic fibers, the flame general anesthetic, but some retardants are usually added patients developed liver RUGUST Council To Consider -----------a!- ' BFG25679 ___ ________ .r DURHAM MORNING HERALD 1 I [ fjl 23483001 PAGE 5B ge Over-The-Counter Expanded Research Is Urged lY TW ASSOCIATE HUS Queteons from Iht National Associ ation of Socurlttos Dealers re represen tative from the National Association of Securities Dealers are representative in * 3I0**_ 317** 310**.+...%. terdealer prices S OF apprximately 91:30 p.m. dolly. Prices do not indue retell mark-upt mark-down or commis-r On Vinyl Chloride Effects '11 11 % 113 131**--+- **14 slon. 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Declines .......... 1144 999 4* 7* Unchanged ................................ 336 342 3 5 Total issues ................................ 1724 1725 1* 2 New 1074 highs ......................... 5 6 5 6 New 1074 lows ......................... 144 44 0 17 13* 14* 34* 39* *14 3* N.C. Eggs 01 4 4* RALEIGH (AP) - North Carolina egg 5* 4* markets were steady Monday. Supplies 3* 4* barely adequate, demand good. Weighted 3 3* average prices for small lot sales of 9* 10* consumer grade eggs in carton delivered 1* 1* nearby outlets: Grade A large whites 7* 3* 59.73, medium whites 50.30, small whites. 4* 5* 24 4* 5* 5* 4* 9* 10* 23'A 241** 23* 24* chloride last winter when the National Institute of Occu pational Safety and Health (NIOSH) found seven deaths from a rare liver cancer among workers at a 6. F. Goodrich Chemical Co. plant in Louisville. Ky. The deaths were almost certainly linked to long exposure to vinyl chloride gas, NIOSH reported. There are not that many workers who are directly exposed to vinyl chloride. But the danger'fiags went up when problems were reported-among workers with polyvinyl chlorides,-Imown as PVC. PVC is made from vinyl chloride and is the material from which the plastics people use are made. Pure polyvinyl chlorides are not believed to be so much of a problem in themselves. However, say the scientists at Pinehurst, almost - none of the PVCs are pure. Things are added to plastics in manufacture to keep vinyl- coated raincoats from cracking in hot weather, to keep garden hoses from rotting in the sun, to make the plastics fire-resistant, to color molded cups, to change the stiffness or pliability of the finished product, and on and on. R. N. King of the University of Utah told the conference a calf -at Utah has now lived 80 days with a totally artificial heart made of plastic and with polyester piping feeding the heart. revamped if medical use of implants is going to move forward, he said. Exposure to potential hazard* is bring most closely watched among workers in industry like those at the B. F. Goodrich! plant. G. F. Cohan, senior product manager of Goodrich,! outlined for the conference the steps that are bring taken to minimize and monitor workers' exposure. Concerted efforts are under way now to find out whether any of the ingredients in plastic food packaging gets into the food and whether the plastic bases of latex and vinyl paints may present potential dangers. The food studies are going an at Rutgers and the paint studies were mentioned by Dr. Irving Selikoff, who is a authority in inhalation toxicology. Inventive Americans WASHINGTON (AP) -- There is always something new under the sun that shines on the U.S. Patent Office, which receives more than 100,000 pat ent applications and issues more than 70,000 patents every year. Over 3.8 million patents havt been issued since 1790, and many of the nation's lead-; ing companies and whole new industries have been based on these patented inventions. **-- **14 43-14 4 3-14-1-14 ;* 4V* 4*+ * * 12* 12 12* 12 1 ** 42 * 4*-- *. 2 -* * 1714 17*- V* * 7-14 7-14....... * 1* 1*- * * 4* 49*-- V. ** 51** 5*- V* 1*+ V* * 40V* 40V*- * * 4* 4*-- 14 4 41* 4*4-- * 4* 4*- * 211-14 2*+3-14 4 3 3* 3sat+ V* Southern Net Corp. Spartan Food Systems Super Doiar stores Synorcon Corp. Teierent Leasing extiles, inc. . Thalhlmer Bros. Transco Companies * Triange Bride Unrfi Tnc. UNITED Caro. Bancshares VermoAmerican VIRGINIA Irrtemtionai Virginia Natl. Bank B. B. Walker Shoe Washington Group West knitting White Shiaid Co. W1X Corp. 14 10 10* It 2* 3 5 S* 2* 3 10 12 n ii* t* S* 314 4 3* 4* 15 16* * 9'A 13* 15 20 21 294 none 17* 19 Downtown Office Space $4 A Square Foot BFG25680 * 4* 7*+* * 9V* 0*- V* 2- 0* 0H-- * Chicago Grain 2 21* 2Vi-- V* 21* 412** 4*-- * 24....... 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