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Previous to my enlistment in the Chemical Warfare Service, I had been a powder maker for the du Pont Powder Co. for three years; three years in which I had learned the value of technical training by watching men who had it promoted over my head because I didn't have it. Strange as it may seem, I bowed to the Board's ukase...
...University of Upsala, shy, black-eyed, Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Theodor Svedberg, 50, perfected two new rotors in which at normal operating speed a dime would press against the wall with a force of half a ton. One rotor he kept. The other he sent to the du Pont research laboratories at Wilmington, Del. There last week Dr. Elmer Otto Kraemer put the machine through its paces for a group of scientists and newshawks...
Last week's visitors saw a few drops of hemoglobin, blood's red coloring matter, being separated from the blood serum. In the Svedberg centrifuge this takes about six hours. By gravity sedimentation alone it would require 180 years. Du Pont expects the apparatus to shed light on the sizes and weights of the "giant" protein molecules in rubber, wool, silk, cellulose, hundreds of plastics...
...transmitted. A dressmaker in Manhattan may see a new color ten minutes after it is shown in a Paris salon, instead of waiting days for a boat. Tall, dark Howard Ketcham, 33, began his color career in an advertising agency, joined the automotive paint division of du Pont de Nemours & Co.. reduced 13,000 body colors to the 600 listed in the Automotive Color Index. Sent around the world by du Pont to have a look at the color habits of other nations. Colorist Ketcham discovered that Mohammedans will not buy green products because green is their sacred color...
...Rubber continued to recover under du Pont management, reporting net income of $2,200,000, a notable improvement over the $544,000 deficit reported the previous year, an incalculable improvement over the $40,000,000 in deficits accumulated early in Depression...