Word: linke
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Packaging Revolution. This continuous search for products-and the tendency of one link in the chain of discovery to lead inexorably to another -runs through Du Pont's entire history and legend. Founded in 1802 by Eleuthere Irenee Du Pont, a French immigrant who had studied gunpowder-making under Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, the company got its start by selling explosives to a young U.S. that needed them to clear the West and defend itself. It grew huge a century later by supplying 40% of the powder used by the Allies in World...
...terminus at Linden, N.J. Trans-Canada Pipe Lines has just applied to the Federal Power Commission for approval to build a $200 million pipeline that will dip over the border into Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Three companies are competing to build a second gas line to link Texas and southern California at a cost exceeding $300 million. In Washington State the Olympic oil products pipeline is pushing southward to serve Seattle and Portland with oil from the rich fields of Canada's Alberta...
...rate of 16 million shares a day. More than 100 companies control their inventories with computers, which record every sale and tell managers when and how much to reorder. Borrowing an idea from the airlines, Long Island's Maxson Electronics Co. plans by next July to link 5,000 hotels, travel bureaus and car-rental outlets in a computerized reservations network...
...reached the frontier, it had been pushed as far west as Spanish Texas and Santa Fe. The grizzlies were similarly surmountable. Pathfinder Jedediah Smith jerked his mangled head from the jaws of one and went on to discover the South Pass gateway through the Rockies and the last missing link in the Oregon Trail. The Plains Indians, who were some of history's toughest cavalrymen, also found their match in Smith and his "mountainmen." One of them kept on trapping for three years with a 3 -in. arrowhead embedded in his back...
...stand second- rate painting." Just before he died, Murphy learned that his friend MacLeish had given his 1927 Wasp and Pear to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Murphy was greatly pleased; he had not known when he stopped painting that his art would ultimately help to link the bewildering present with the more settled past...