Word: dupont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basis of this one-man boom is a paraffin-like substance which its chief producers, DuPont and Bakelite, call, respectively, polythene and polyethylene. Tupper's all-important contribution is a process which overcomes the material's tendency to split, makes it tough enough to withstand almost anything except knife cuts' and near-boiling water...
Archibaid C. Spencer, of 1800 Dupont Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minnesota, a graduate of the Blake School...
They accused Frédéric Dupont, a Paris city councilor for 13 years, of "intelligence with the enemy" during the occupation. Rightists answered that such an accusation should be heard in a court of law, not in the legislature. The Reds promptly let go with shrill invective. Pierre Hervé, Communist intellectual, flung "Vichyite!" at Rightist André Mutter. The wizened but agile editor leaped up and started across the floor with fists doubled. One-armed André Le Trocquer, Socialist ex-Minister of the Interior, and two stiff-shirted, bechained ushers restrained Mutter. Meanwhile, the bedlam grew...
When order was restored, the Assembly seated Dupont (vote 341-to-130) with only the Communists voting against him. A similar effort to unseat wartime Premier Paul Reynaud met a similar fate...
...George DuPont Pratt...