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Bold barons of finance afloat on a huge white yacht. Big names: Sir Alfred Mond "Biggest British Chemist," Irénée du Pont, and many another. Germans the hosts. Secret talk about nitrates. The yacht steams down the blue Adriatic from Venice to Corfu and returns. Meanwhile banqueting to tempt Lucullus. Scuppers running with champagne. But always more and more earnest talk of nitrates. The whole junket an achievement in making pleasure implicit with business...
...Alfred Mond was aboard the Lutzow. So was Irénée du Pont, representing the world potent E. I. du Pont de Nemours chemical firm of Wilmington...
...hush hush" conferences among the chemical tycoons; and no immediate prospect exists that an international nitrate trust agreement will be concluded paralleling those now affecting pot ash, industrial chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, steel & copper. The Lutzow party was a party of technicians, and therefore the great U. S. du Pont chemical interests were appropriately represented by jovial, alert Irénée du Pont, 51. Although his duties have been wholly executive for a generation or more, he still retains a dexterous and discerning skill in the technical processes of the laboratory. His hands are not so habituated to the enormous...
Pierre S. du Pont...
Irenee du Pont...