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which allowed them to purchase their individual units outright or to continue to apply rentals to their purchases. B.M.I. is administered by the managers of the five companies as a cooperative board of directors. The B.M.I. layout contains upwards of 155 buildings, with a total floor space of about 3,314,335 square feet. The area is served by a network of rail sidings from a Union Pacific branch line and by a four-lane highway. Employment is currently estimated at 3,000. Stauffer Chemical, operating six full chlorine circuits, is one of the world*s largest producers of chlorine. Pioche Manganese produces ferro­manganese for use as a steel alloy. U.S. Lime Products (which has a supply plant a few miles southwest of the District) supplies flux for a major part of the West Coast steel industry. Titanium Metals and Western Electrochemical are operating under a security blanket. Titanium Metals, a subsidiary of National Lead Company and Allegheny Ludlurn Steel Corp., is getting a new $11,000,000 plant which will increase the world production of titanium eight times. Western Electrochemical is manufacturing guided missile and jet-assisted- take-off fuels in a new $4,000,000 plant built by the U.S. Navy. The expansion program at B.M.I. totals $25,000,000, not including the construction of 2,000 new homes in the town of Henderson. The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce reports that several large land tracts in Clark County have been acquired by nationally known industrial firms, in­cluding the purchase of several thousand acres by the Hughes Foundation. In Las Vegas itself the Union Pacific Railroad is the largest employer, with about 700 persons employed in its division headquarters, shops and classi­fication yards. Other industries in the city include the Cinder-lite Block 6