Word: duponts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pierre Samuel duPont, board chair-man of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. (explosives, cellulose products), chairman of General Motors Corp., State Tax Commissioner of Delaware,* made known that he had bought a $250,000 pipe organ which will be brought in 14 freight cars this week to a specially constructed $750,000 building on his Kennett Square, Pa., estate where it will be played for him by Firman Swinnen, onetime Antwerp Cathedral organist...
...surprise was his model's success to Mr. Armstrong, swarthy engineer, who since he left the Navy has been consulting engineer for the E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. at Wilmington. For 16 years he has been experimenting and designing such a sea base having in mind ocean way stations for ships and, more lately for transoceanic aircraft. He "sold" his idea to the eminently practical duPont and General Motors financiers. They have provided him one and three quarters million dollars to build his first seadrome. Construction has already started on it. It will be called the Langley after...
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