Word: guncotton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-two years ago, while the U. S. was trying to win World War I, the Du Ponts set a young engineer, Francis Breese Davis Jr., to building the world's No. 1 guncotton plant at Hopewell, Va. Eleven years ago the Du Ponts acquired control of the sick U. S. Rubber Co., the following year put dependable Organizer Davis in to explode a case of profit-making dynamite under it. Davis quickly found out where to plant the charge. Mass production methods had not been perfected in the $900,000,000 rubber industry. As he said afterwards...
Evidently of much sterner stuff than its tipsy neighbor on Oxford Street, Memorial Hall early yesterday morning remained unshaken in the face of concerted bombing by several Freshmen. Several months of plotting, a dozen copies of the New Yorker, and quantities of glue, canvas, and guncotton went into the production of a bomb eighteen inches long and five inches in diameter...
...eight-minute dynamite fuse led into the guncotton, which was contained in a wadding of a New Yorkers, glue, canvas, etc. That Memorial Hall stands today unbowed by their efforts has not discouraged the bombers, who are now planning a second attempt, to be executed in the best Med. Fac. style...
...into jars of water, shatter the jars by the pressure wave in the water. As evidence that modern high explosives are not to be tampered with, Dr. Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins exhibited a lantern slide depicting the impression of an apple leaf driven into solid steel by guncotton, declared the detonation in a tube of nitroglycerin proceeds at four mi. per sec., described a new explosive, iodide of nitrogen, which is so skittish that the landing of a housefly sets...
...morning last week Mr. Francis Breese Davis Jr. looked at the newspaper. In 1909 Mr. Davis was hired by the du Ponts as a civil engineer. Since then he has had one du Pont job after another: black powder, sporting powder, guncotton. smokeless powder, cellulose. General Motors, Pyroxylin, safety glass. Four years ago the du Ponts gave him the toughest job of all: made him president of U. S. Rubber just a few months before the crash. U. S. Rubber, the only great non-Akron rubber company, has had a hard row to hoe, even for a rubber company...