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Fair Deal trustbusters, who have sued to force Pierre, Irénée and Lammot du Pont to give up their control of General Motors, last week asked Chicago's federal court to lengthen the list of defendants. The Government wanted to cite 183 additional members of the Du Pont family in the alleged antitrust conspiracy dating back to 1914. In Wilmington, Del., Lammot du Pont, noting that 96 of the defendants are under 21 years of age and 61 of them under 14, cited, as the prize new defendant, Irénée's granddaughter...
When the canal was finished, Major Wood-and other canal officers-were rewarded by Congress; they were permitted to retire at three-quarter pay. Wood got a job with Du Pont at $6,000 a year, and within five months was making $9,000. But he quit then anyway, explaining to Pierre du Pont that "there are so many of you able people around at the top, it will be too long before there's room...
...experimental substation near Lubbock. The first sample of 2,4,5-T for tests on mesquite ("just enough to put in your hat") was delivered to him in 1945 by Dow Chemical Co. Later American Chemical Paint, which holds the original patent on 2,4,5-T, and Du Pont joined in. Today all three firms manufacture the chemical. Fisher started testing it on 80 five-acre plots, went on to larger areas which he sprayed from a plane at leafing time. In three to ten days, the leaves yellowed. The following year the mesquite failed to leaf again...
Quick-Dry. A new quick-drying wall paint for undercoating called "Sealer-Coater" was put on the market by Du Pont. It comes in white only (but may be tinted), dries in less than two hours under normal conditions so that another coat can quickly be painted over it. Price per gallon...
According to available information, this is not happening now. In the first place, the names of the contractors read like the social register of U.S. industry: General Electric, Du Pont, Union Carbide and Carbon, Monsanto, Westinghouse, Western Electric, etc. Such outfits are intensely jealous of their reputations and go far beyond formal correctness. In spite of the lack of profit motive (Du Pont gets $1 for building the $1,250,000,000 Savannah River Plant), they are working with enthusiasm, diligence and enterprise. They comb through their organizations to find the best men to put on AEC jobs. They...