Word: duco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place to shop for sure-fire powder. But for the last 20 years, Du Pont has been easing out of the war business, in 1936 stopped promoting munitions sales abroad altogether. Nowadays it has a less lethal line-and the Du Pont name is best known for stuffs like Duco, Rayon, Zerone, nylon (for fish line, brush bristles, silky hose), plastics, Cellophane. Last year vast E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., chemicals empire (total assets: $857,618,123), had $299,000,000 in sales. This included only a 1% increase in products for military...
Since 1935 Du Pont has been on the radio every season with a program called Cavalcade of America, not specifically to sell Duco or Cellophane, but to herald Du Font's part in supplying the U. S. with materials it once had to import, or perhaps had never imagined. This increasing state of self-sufficiency is hailed as "America's Declaration of Economic Independence...