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U.S. producers of benzene from petroleum and their approximate production capacities are shown in Table 5. These figures are inexact because the size of the market and instabiUty of benzene prices causes frequent changes in capacity. Dow Chemical, with total armual benzene capacity of 8.3 x 10 t (250 million gallons) is the largest producer in the United States. Other companies with total domestic capacity of over 3.3 x 10 t (100 million gallons) per year are Amoco Corp., Lyondell, British Petroleum America, Chevron, Exxon Chemical, Occidental Petroleum, Shell Oil, and Mobil. These companies account for approximately 60% of total U.S. benzene capacity (65). 

Material Handling Systems Division, FMC Corp. To convert British thermal units to kilojoules, multiply by 1.06 to eonvert horsepower to kilowatts, multiply by 0.746. 

A recent study indicates that if the Wacker process proves to be substantially cheaper than the acetylene route, no more vinyl acetate plants will be built in the United States, based on the latter process (38). Table XV gives estimated production costs for manufacturing vinyl acetate. Several companies are building or have already built plants to manufacture vinyl acetate from ethylene. These include Distillers Co., Ltd., British Celanese, Imperial Chemical Industries, and Celanese Corp., to name only a few. 

Meanwhile, companies of the 83d Battalion supported the American Rangers and British Commandos in action in the 10 Corps sector. On Sicily this mortar unit had earned the sobriquet Artillery of the Rangers. This expression was equally apt for the unit s service with the Commandos, who also operated without organic heavy weapons. 

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