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...special du Pont fellowship for work in the chemical Laboratories here is being given to Robert P. Jacobsen, of Crete, Nebraska. He received an M.A. from George Washington University in '31 and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland...
...carnauba wax. Last year exports totaled 13,500,000 Ib., more than half of which went to the U. S. Principal uses are: floor and furniture polish-Johnson & Son, A. S. Boyle Co.; shoe polish-Gold Dust (Shinola, 2-in-1, Bixbee), Whittemore, Griffin; auto polish-Simoniz, Du Pont...
...Seal of The Conquering Lion of Judah was affixed in token of His Majesty's assent. What had he done? It all depended on who Fat Chaps' backers really are. Every undeveloped country is fair game for plausible promoters who go about hinting that they represent du Pont, or De Beers or Krupp. Last week Francis M. Rickett said that his backers were Standard Oil and British capitalists whom he refused to name. They are putting in, he said, $50,000,000 and work will start almost at once on roads, telegraphs, railway and pipe lines...
Like two other new materials introduced recently-Nitramon. du Pont's "foolproof" explosive (TIME, Feb. 4), and Solene, a solidified gasoline developed at New York University (TIME. July 15) - tempered glass lends itself to spectacular demonstrations. Last week it was unharmed after a 2-lb. steel ball and a11-lb. bag of steel shot had been dropped on it from six feet, after a pane of it had been placed on an ice cake and molten lead poured on the top surface, after a torsion machine had warped a sheet of it like so much cardboard...
Engaged. Alice F. Du Pont, 22, air-minded daughter of air-minded Alexis Felix Du Pont of Wilmington, Del.; and James Paul Mills, polo-playing son of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Denckla Mills of Glen Head, L. I., great-grandson of the late Philadelphia Banker Anthony Joseph Drexel...