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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...
...experimental paintings and two large murals which proved beyond any doubt that "the mechanical brush" is capable of a wide range of artistic effects. Artist Berdecio works with an air-compressing machine and a spray gun of the common industrial type (same principle as an atomizer), using not ordinary Duco enamel but a similar nitrocellulose paint. It has taken him six years, since he first started work with Siqueiros in Mexico City, to train his trigger finger to its present control. Painted on pressed wood, his two mural Portraits of New York were full of refined detail, though somewhat lifeless...
...color prizes and done some portraits when he was a Canadian soldier in a British hospital. Afterward he got a job painting automobiles for the Pontiac experimental department, later for Oklahoma City's Pontiac dealer, Chieftain Motors, Inc. At this work he developed a fine handiness with the Duco spray gun. Finally the heavy-browed, muffin-faced War veteran undertook to use his spray gun to paint pictures...
...spraying one color over another. His specialties are mist, clouds and transparent effects. For difficult objects such as ships he uses stencils to draw the outlines; faces, houses, bridges, trees he sprays offhand. Top price for a Lawrence so far: $25. Last week the Pontiac publicity department took up Duco Artist Lawrence, as a well-turned favor to the du Ponts who make Duco and own almost a quarter of General Motors, which owns Pontiac...