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...semicircle of chairs, amid banked roses, heather and myrtle in the Palace music room, sat the family, a handful of old retainers, a sprinkling of ladies and gentlemen in waiting, and the godparents. Resplendent in gold cope and miter before a silver-gilt font, the Archbishop of Canterbury reached out gingerly to take the baby, swathed in four yards of silk and Honiton lace...
When it appeared on New York newsstands one morning last week, the grey and respectable Journal of Commerce looked as if it had spent a hard night-as indeed it had. The edition was four hours late, full of uneven lines, wrong-font letters and typographical errors. The Journal's printers had not fallen down on the job; they had walked...
...Brensham, all the thieves and poachers are lovable rogues, all the women quiver with massive bursts of laughter, all the intellectuals are wise, all the drunkards poetic. Natural eccentricity and tolerance leave no place for nasty gossip and nagging. The vicar keeps live bait in the church font and nesting-boxes over the porch ("My dear fellows," says he to his wardens, "can you think of anything less sacrilegious than a pair of spotted flycatchers...
Most successful experimenter was Dr. Wallace Carothers of Du Pont. While trying to synthesize a silklike fiber, he stumbled upon a compound with a wonderful musky odor. Under the name of Astro-tone, it is widely used as a musk substitute. (Returning to bis original quest, Du Font's Carothers did women an even greater service by discovering nylon...
...production of military explosives employed only 400 workers, accounted for less than 2% of Du Font's total sales. During the war, Du Pont built up its munitions capacity to a peak employment of 37,000, produced 4.5 billion pounds of explosives (20% more than the Allies used in World War I). But even in wartime, military explosives accounted for only 25% of Du Font's total production v. 85% in World War I. The rest comprised neoprene, nylon...