Word: ponte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nickels. Last week the auto industry produced 102,098 cars and trucks, more than in any week since mid-1941. The steel industry, roaring along at 94.1% of capacity, was turning out far more steel than in any peacetime year. Many a prosperous company upped its-dividend, e.g., Du Pont from $1.25 to $2 and International Harvester from 65? to $1. Despite the worst freight-car shortage in 20 years, Barren's latest Weekly Production Index held at 117, within one point of the postwar peak...
Most successful experimenter was Dr. Wallace Carothers of Du Pont. While trying to synthesize a silklike fiber, he stumbled upon a compound with a wonderful musky odor. Under the name of Astro-tone, it is widely used as a musk substitute. (Returning to bis original quest, Du Font's Carothers did women an even greater service by discovering nylon...
...Paris, the poor huddled in the metro and the rich, wearing overcoats, huddled in the Crillon bar. The statuesque stone Zouave emerging from the Seine at the Pont de l'Alma wore a girdle of solid ice around his midriff. The soft silk draped around slender mannequins at Molyneux's, Lanvin's and Worth's felt as cold as the Zouave's ice. The Paris Models' Union announced that the wages for its members posing nude in unheated studios would be upped 30? an hour, effective "as soon as the model complains of chair...
Under draft age in World War I, Young got a job cutting smokeless powder at the Du Pont war plant at Carneys Point, NJ. at 28? an hour, ended up in the Du Pont treasurer's office in Wilmington. In 1920, having inherited $15,000 from his maternal grandfather, he moved to New York and went broke playing the market. He went to work for General Motors and was earning $35,000 a year as assistant treasurer when he left, in 1929, to become financial adviser to the late John J. Raskob, then top financial man at Du Pont...
...Alamos Director J. R. Oppenheimer (University of California); Hartley Rowe, chief engineer of the United Fruit Co. ; Chemistry Professor Glenn T. Seaborg (University of California), Cyril Stanley Smith, director of the University of Chicago's Institute of Metals; Hood Worthington, chemical engineer for E. I. Du Pont de Nemours...