Word: fonts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though many more wanted to come to church, its dilapidated state kept many away. In the winter the water froze in the font and the wine in the chalice. Parents would not let their children go to catechism class because of the cold and damp. Father Simon realized that he would have to build a small chapel that could be heated in winter and have the church restored for summer services. But where would the money come from...
...Christiana Securities Co., the Du Fonts' family holding company, which owns more than 27% of Du Font's common stock, paid a year-end dividend of $174.25, bringing the total for the year to $407.25 v. $258.60 in 1949. Price of Christiana stock: $5,400 a share...
...fashion show in Burlington Mills Corp.'s Manhattan office last week, the textile company showed the public something it has never seen before. Bur-Mill paraded dresses, evening gowns, men's bathing trunks and men's & women's suits of Du Font's new synthetic, Orion (TIME, March 20). The garments were washable, wrinkle-resistant, warm to the touch, and, unlike nylon, were porous...
...catalogue paper was handmade in England; fine old castoff linen shirts from Italy provided its basic rag stock. The ink, pure lampblack carbon and linseed oil unadulterated by modern aniline dyes, was specially ground in Germany in 1928. A new type font was designed by Jan van Krimpen, cast in The Netherlands. Two three-ton hand presses were shipped from England to Pittsburgh for the actual printing...
...Font's own President Crawford H. Greenewalt filed his own cogent brief. Only because of Du Font's size, said Chemist Greenewalt, was his company able to spend ten years and $27 million on the "difficult and sometimes bitterly disappointing research" to develop nylon-and thus give rise to many new U.S. businesses. To illustrate his point, Greenewalt held a 1.2-lb. package of nylon (price: $1.60) in one hand and a woman's nylon dress in the other. The dress had been processed by six companies-spinner, throwster, weaver, etc.-and was priced to retail...