Word: ponte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as if symbolizing this momentous change, which may affect U.S. industry long after World War II is over, the Society of Chemical Industry gave its top award, the Perkin Medal, not to a leader of an established chemical firm like Carbide, Monsanto or Du Pont, but to Dr. Robert Erastus Wilson, head of Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co., a subsidiary of Standard...
...mock Tokyo, traders on the New York Stock Exchange put on another show of confidence, last week boosted stocks to new highs for the year. Typical gains: American Airlines 5⅛ points, Chrysler 1¾, Du Pont 4½, Monsanto Chemical 3⅜, Norfolk & Western 6⅜, U.S. Steel...
From duty off the coast of Africa came Navy Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., turning up in Manhattan's plush Stork Club with wife Ethel du Pont Roosevelt and Boatswain Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt...
...Bubblfil, a new and really modern substitute. A Du Pont invention, it is a continuous string of small air bubbles wrapped in Cellophane, looks like so many tiny sausages. Bubblfil fills the bill on all the war jobs where kapok is now used, is easy to ship and use, not readily inflammable...
...basis of extensive war-plant research, especially in aircraft factories, Du Pont also recommends soft light-reflecting colors for factory floors so that light will "bounce up" and assist in working on the under surfaces of such jobs as aircraft wings. By suitable changes in the colors of machines, floors, walls and ceilings, increases of as much as 100% in shop illumination have been achieved without increasing the candle power of the illuminants...