Word: ponte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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UNRRA, despite its international character, is predominantly American. The U.S. contributed the lion's share (40%) of its funds. Its main office is in Washington, in a converted apartment building on Du Pont Circle. Its director general is an American: balding, easygoing Herbert H. Lehman, onetime Governor of New York...
More than $30,000,000, representing profits made by the Germans for U.S. and British firms during the occupation, will soon be paid out to rightful owners. Paris reported E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. will receive $520,000; the Thomas Y. Crowell Co. (book publisher) of New York, at the bottom of the list, will get a check...
...French announcement was all news to Du Pont, which has no plants in France, was not sure how it could have made money there. But in Paris, a Finance Ministry official said checks totaling $8,000,000 were already en route to those who would profit by France's gesture...
...report it highly effective against weeds in carrot and onion fields. ¶ Borax. In heavy applications, this chemical sterilizes the soil against weeds for two years, has given promising results on railway roadbeds and highway shoulders. ¶ Ammonium sulfamate. This new chemical, recently put on the market by Du Pont, has been so successful against poison ivy that enthusiasts predict the complete eradication of that noxious weed from...
...apprehensive U.S. businessman who was using German and other foreign developments to implement the fight against the Axis, the timing of Biddle's lawsuit was as hard to explain as his suits against many another big war producer-e.g., Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Republic Steel Corp. About all these companies could do was to go on producing, while they waited to see what would happen next. Some of Biddle's flamboyant legal ventures-e.g., the abortive mass trial of alleged seditionists in Washington, his garishly publicized attempt to close...