Word: duponts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sophomore and Junior members of the Harvard Naval Science Unit will embark on the destroyer Dupont at Boston Navy Yard on Saturday, and will proceed to Fort Pond Bay, on the eastern end of Long Island, where they will meet detachments from Yale and Georgia Tech. The summer cruise this year will be along the eastern coast of Florida, and will last until July...
...Swope, however. Many opponents qualified their opposition, indicating that if the strict six-hour, five-day-and-no-more provision were made more flexible, they might feel differently. Henry Ford was reported in favor of the bill. Two other notable industrialists who favor the general idea include Lamont duPont, president of E. I. duPont de Nemours, which instituted a six-hour day in October, 1931, and Herbert Lee Pratt, chairman of Socony-Vacuum, which instituted a five-day week last fall. Many a great corporation is already providing its workers with no more than 30 hours work a week, many...
...digging ditches, doing all the odd jobs that remained. Last fortnight was dedicated the second unit of Hessian Hills' new plant, a wing containing an auditorium, music room, shower baths and locker rooms. Half of the $12,000 that this cost was given by Manhattan Philanthropist George Dupont Pratt in memory of his wife whose name it bears, the rest by friends of the school. In these rooms as throughout the school, all the bric-a-brac, small furniture and decoration is the work of Hessian Hills pupils...
Trapeze (Harmonic-film), a German talkie with English subtitles, was directed by E. A. Dupont, who made Variety. His penchant for oblique photography is appropriate for aerial acrobatics like the trick called "Salto Mortale," which the three principal personages in this picture perform at frequent intervals. "Salto Mortale" is a giant swing on a revolving platform followed by a jump to a trapeze that has to be released by a ground-lever at exactly the right moment. It is performed by Marina (Anna Sten) and Jim (Reinhold Bernt), an arrogant animal-feeder who volunteers for the act to show Marina...
...materials for Duprene, the synthetic rubber lately announced by the duPont interests, are coal and limestone (carbonate), salt and water (TIME...