Allied Corporation

Allied Corp. was a major American company with operations in the chemical, aerospace, automotive, oil and gas industries.

This resulted in critical shortages of certain dyes, drugs and especially ammonia, a vital compound used to make fertilizers and explosives.

In 1920, publisher Eugene Meyer and noted chemist William Henry Nichols founded Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation in order to address this shortcoming in American industrial production.

[3] After World War II, Allied began manufacturing other products, including Nylon 6, refrigerants and plastic dinnerware.

Allied initially regarded Union as a vertical integration supplier of raw materials for its chemical products.

However, CEO John T. Connor, secretary of commerce under president Lyndon Johnson, sold many of Allied's unprofitable businesses in the 1970s and invested more heavily in oil and gas exploration.

[2] Between 1964 and 1984, the reporting marks used to identify Allied Chemical's rolling stock on the North American railroad network was NLX.