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...Franklin Jr. after five weeks in Florida recuperating from sinus infection which invalided him last November, returned to the White House cured, bringing his fiancée Ethel du Pont. No sooner had they arrived than Fiancée Ethel came down with acute appendicitis. The Roosevelts, after telephoning her family in Wilmington, called a naval ambulance, shot her into Emergency Hospital a block from the White House where she was successfully operated on by Commander Morton Willcutts...
Dynamite & Bananas. By a wide margin E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. topped its best previous figures, both on operations and investments. In 1929 Du Pont made $78,171,000, last year $92,032,000. Du Pont in 1936 took in $44,004,000 from dividends on its 10,000,000 shares of General Motors stock, compared...
...Pont de Nemours & Company has decided to increase the number of fellowships it awards annually to six post-doctorate fellowships and eighteen post-graduate fellowships and eighteen post-graduate fellowships for the academic year 1937-38. This action has been taken because of the success of the plan in encouraging and developing organic chemical research. These fellowships, which will be located at eighteen leading universities and colleges including Harvard, are maintained to encourage more promising students in research work in the field of chemistry...
...purpose of the du Pont Fellowship Plan is primarily to promote the advancement of science and the scientific training of young men, and to co-operate with the educational institutions in their efforts to carry on advanced research work. The du Pont fellowships differ from the usual industrial fellowships in that they are not restricted to research on subjects directly connected with the du Pont products. Experience has proved that the broad purpose of the plan is best served by permitting the colleges to select the beneficiary of the fellowship and the research subject as well...
...Pont Fellowship Plan was inaugurated by the du Pont Company in 1918. In that year, seventeen fellowships with an average stipend of $750 were made available to sixteen universities for research chemistry...