Word: fontes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tail, Warren Wright's three-year-old darling of the turf: the 49th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes (a mile and five furlongs); by ten lengths over Hal Price Headley's Alaking, 16 lengths over William Boeing's Time Counts, 24 lengths over William du Font's Fairymant; before 27,000 racing fans; at New York's Belmont Park. It was his 20th victory in 35 starts. The $23,050 prize money upped Whirly's life earnings to $347,661-less than $100,000 short of Seabiscuit's all-time record...
...Government-fixed minimum. This year Du Pont plans to produce 8,000,000 Ib. of nylon at its Seaford, Del. plant, enough to take over 17% to 20% of the U.S. hosiery trade, make a third 'of a million pairs of stockings a day. Late this year, Du Font's new plant at Martinsville, Va. will double this output, drive still harder against Japan's No. 1 export. Present price of nylon, though reduced 4% last fall, is still substantially higher than silk. But Du Pont engineers say this is unimportant, since the nylon yarn goes farther...
...Bleriot monoplane officially hauled the first sack of mail in 1911, rural air mail was just talk until handsome young Du Pont got the bright idea that overcame the two big obstacles to small-town air mail: expense of landing fields, loss of time and money making stops. Du Font's idea: land only when necessary, otherwise swoop low over clearings at 100 m.p.h., simultaneously drop incoming mail, pick up outgoing letters and packages by snagging a pouch hung on a 50-foot cable between two 40-foot poles...
...final dinner, which was the second biggest dinner* the Waldorf had ever served. Present were enough tycoons to float a national economy. Men like General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, U. S. Steel's Irving Olds and Ben Fairless, Standard Oil's William Farish, Du Font's Lammot du Pont, Swift's John Holmes, Bethlehem's Eugene Grace, General Electric's Philip Reed, Goodyear's Paul Litchfield were just white ties in a white-tied sea. It was probably the greatest galaxy of industrial power and talent ever gathered in one room...
...began to happen fast, 1) At King Powder Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, which makes dynamite, blasting powder, three were killed. 2) At the Atlas plant, Joplin, Mo., which turns out 1,000,000 lb. of TNT monthly for Great Britain, on Aug. 16, five were killed. 3) At Du Font's dynamite plant at Gibbstown, N. J., six days later, four were killed. 4) At the Hercules plant at Kenvil, N. J., in the biggest explosion since World War I, on Sept. 12, 51 were killed. 5) At the Army's Picatinny Arsenal, on Sept. 23, two were...