Word: fonts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Font's Dr. Crawford H. Greene-wait: pure speculation -perhaps three years, perhaps ten, perhaps longer...
...back to true Christianity," Werfel will always remain a Jew: "Israel is more than a nation; it is an historical and biological order . . . into which . . . one enters by birth, never to be released until the last day but one. A Jew who steps up to the baptismal font . . . deserts . . . from the side of the weak and the persecuted . . . from Israel's deepest origins, from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. . . . [He] deserts Christ Himself, since he arbitrarily interrupts his historical suffering - the penance for rejecting the Messiah...
...French Gestapo Boss Pierre Bony was caught by patriots. He was disguised as a hobo. With him was his aide, Henry La Font, disguised as a hired farm hand...