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However, another exchange in 1922 showed that when Du Pont had a big chance to exercise a monopoly, it refused to do so. The chance came with its perfection of Duco, the quick-drying, auto-body finish which revolutionized painting in the industry. Before Duco, Body Builder Lawrence P. Fisher testified at the trial, it took 21 days to paint and dry a Cadillac. "If we had carried on with paint," said Fisher, so much storage space would have been needed that "we'd have had a roof over Michigan." Had Du Pont limited the sale of Duco...
Fodder by Duco. In Waukomis, Okla., Fanner Virgil Beard collected $75 from his insurance company to get his car repainted after the original coat was licked off by his 25 cows...
...oils by Cook are in the Abe Ratner school except for one abstract is Duco enamels, while Chermayeff has experimented with design and abstract color block relationships. None of the paintings are "representational" art. This is the first showing of University students for over two years...
...master technician of U.S. industry. It has 72 plants in 25 states, employs about 85,000 people, turns out 1,200 different types of products, and last year chalked up $1,297,000,000 in sales. Its wizardry in its Wilmington laboratories periodically conjures up entire new industries. Duco, the first quick-drying auto finish, revolutionized U.S. auto production. Cellophane changed the packaging habits of everybody from butchers, bakers and cigarette makers to orchid growers. Nylon changed the hosiery habits of U.S. women, is helping to revolutionize the textile industry. Fully 60% of Du Pont's sales come from...
Soon Du Pont's peacetime business soared far above even the war years. Nitrocellulose, used for gun cotton, proved to be the source of peacetime wonders. It led to Duco to rayon and to cellophane-the latter two based on French patents. The French thought they were sticking Du Pont with a useless novelty in cellophane (the stuff came apart when wet). But Du Pont's researchers discovered how to waterproof it (a variant of Duco did the trick), and built such a market that by 1939 cellophane was one of Du Pont's biggest-selling products...