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...succeeding his older brothers, Pierre, 82, and Irénée, 75. During the depression he launched the company on a program of research into basic science, announced: "There are times when it is more important to spend money on research than to pay dividends." Out of Du Font's research came synthetic rubber, nylon, and the company's part in the development of the atomic bomb...
...Department of Justice's trustbusters wanted Judge Ryan to go further in punishment, open up all of Du Font's future patents. This Judge Ryan sternly refused to do. He termed the demand itself unprecedented in law, and added that it "would be punitive as well as destructive of that driving incentive which has accounted for much of the remarkable development of the chemical industry." Noting that Du Pont had spent a total of $196.8 million to bring nylon from test tube to mass production, he observed that it is also spending $45 million a year on research...
...were the highest (estimated: $42.5 billion) of any year except 1951's alltime record; afterward, they were the lowest of any year since 1946's marginal, reconversion-battered first quarter. Some of the typical casualties: General Motors' net off 10%, U.S. Steel's 10%, Du Font's 15%, Union Carbide & Carbon's 20%, U.S. Rubber's 30%, topped by Libbey-Owens-Ford...
...ways of Cloone, Ches and Finn pick up the rhyme of it from the old folks. There is Brink-o'-the-Grave, midwife and layer-out of the dead who can still keen the ancient Gaelic laments; Lord Caherdown, the bogus aristocrat and tosspot; and Old Font, the village Boswell. "The night our local member of Parliament threw the mace at the Speaker of the British House of Commons ... to call attention to the wrongs of Ireland," recalls Old Font, "we lighted bonfires here in Cloone an' held cheerin' till it whitened for day in the eastern...
...market by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. When the powder is applied heavily, it kills all plant life, keeps soil sterile for more than a year, is thus useful for clearing railroad tracks, outside storage areas, etc. Used in smaller amounts, du Font's new product attacks weeds only, permits such crops as sugar cane, cotton, corn, asparagus or carrots to flourish...