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Across the Ohio River from Louisville, Charlestown, Ind. (pre-defense pop., 850) was bewildered and irritated last week. Du Pont engineers were building for the U. S. Government a vast, sprawling $50,000,000 smokeless-powder plant of 100 buildings (some reportedly underground for air-raid protection) on 6,000 acres of woodland. At first Charlestowners had been as elated as small boys by this windfall. But by last week their town had grown to 5.000. Where there had been three people to a house, there now were twelve. Rents doubled, trailer camps toad-stooled, a carpenter lives...
Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission published its report to null a 121-page study of "The Distribution of Ownership in the 200 Largest Non-Financial* Corporations." Based on 1937 figures, it whittled the Lundberg roster to 13 families, was considerably less personal than his census of Du Pont bathrooms, considerably more dogged in tracking down actual shareholdings (Lundberg had estimated fortunes by 1924 tax returns). It found...
...Silk Importer Paolino Gerli called it "hysteria." He also forecast that by the end of November. U.S. silk stocks (now about two months' supply) would have doubled. But knitters and weavers, reflecting that a war with Japan would last longer than four months. noted that Du Pont was speeding its nylon plant expansion and intensified the buying rush. Some importers had to turn orders down...
...Atlas Powder Co., near Joplin, Mo., Aug. 16, five men killed; King Powder Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, Aug. 7, three men killed; E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Gibbstown, N. J., Aug. 20, four men killed...
...area. B. F. Goodrich Co. at Clarksville, Tenn. is making gas-mask parts. Other TVA plants are making gun and shell parts, boilers, airplane fabrics, ferromanganese. Army shoes, blankets, underdrawers, etc. Biggest defense plant in the region will be Tennessee Powder Co. at Memphis, now being built by Du Pont engineers with British money. Of the new ordnance plants planned by the U. S. Army, one will probably be in TVA area...