Word: du
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...du Pont, gunpowder & chemical tycoon, who attended the convention as a director of Equitable Life Assurance Society, envisioned a great collateral use for these stupendous sums. Said he: let the insurance companies each year contribute one-eighth of one cent of every dollar of their assets to an organization for research in their favorite thing: the prolongation of life. "The funds would finance the greatest organization the world has ever applied to a specific problem," observed Mr. du Pont. The funds would be $20,000,000 yearly, the equivalent of a half-billion-dollar endowment...
Chemicals. Pierre S. du Pont, U. S.; M. Donat Agache, France...
Oberkoks. To E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. the Oberkoks Chemical Co. of Berlin last week agreed to give some stock and some cash. In return du Pont will give Oberkoks right to manufacture Duco products in its territory...
...du Pont de Nemours & Co., with current construction work involving some $16,000,000, announced that an additional $9,000,000 will be spent...
...People first began talking about Ernst Lubitsch when Pola Negri was getting popular. He directed her in the pictures that made her reputation?Gypsy Blood, Montmartre, One Arabian Night. With her he made Madame Du Barry, called Passion in the U. S., which was credited for reviving a vogue in historical costume pictures. Son of a Berlin storekeeper, Lubitsch learned about acting from a comedian named Victor Arnold and from Max Reinhardt, who hired him for a while. After the Negri pictures, he showed that he was even better at comedy than serious things. He colored The Marriage Circle with...