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Matchmakers. A sad-faced Swede named Johan Edvard Lundstrom had erected a match factory at his native Jonkoping ir. 1845. Starting with a small shop, he and Brother Carl Frans swiftly widened their market. In 1850 Brother Carl Frans visited England, talked business with Matchmakers Bryant & May. Thus began Sweden's export of matches...
Bold barons of finance afloat on a huge white yacht. Big names: Sir Alfred Mond "Biggest British Chemist," Irénée du Pont, and many another. Germans the hosts. Secret talk about nitrates. The yacht steams down the blue Adriatic from Venice to Corfu and returns. Meanwhile banqueting to tempt Lucullus. Scuppers running with champagne. But always more and more earnest talk of nitrates. The whole junket an achievement in making pleasure implicit with business...
...Alfred Mond was aboard the Lutzow. So was Irénée du Pont, representing the world potent E. I. du Pont de Nemours chemical firm of Wilmington...
...immediate prospect exists that an international nitrate trust agreement will be concluded paralleling those now affecting pot ash, industrial chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, steel & copper. The Lutzow party was a party of technicians, and therefore the great U. S. du Pont chemical interests were appropriately represented by jovial, alert Irénée du Pont, 51. Although his duties have been wholly executive for a generation or more, he still retains a dexterous and discerning skill in the technical processes of the laboratory. His hands are not so habituated to the enormous weight of a pen as to hamper...
...rather than by arbitrary acts of will in defiance of them is still hard to grasp. One does not have to be a materialist to believe that the reason for the flood in the bottom lands is not that God is angry with Arkansas and Louisiana but that there ir too much water in the river to run off through the normal channel...