Word: pontes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work as a consulting engineer, helped him in his early researches. He expected substantial backing also from General Motors until Depression upset his plans. Last March he organized Seadrome Ocean Dock Corp., with himself as president and majority stockholder. His backers include GM's Board Chairman Lammot du Pont and President John Howard...
Engaged. Lammot du Pont, 53, board chairman of General Motors Corp., president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; and Margaret A. Flett, Wilmington clubwoman. He has seven children by two previous marriages...
...While it is largely a catalogue of the facts, figures, and activities of the great war materials firms, it contains information not generally available in such terse form. The pacifist will find here material for endless confounding of his opponents; the militarist and members of the firm of Du Pont de Nemours will be stimulated to thought and research into their consciences. After listening however, to the recital of the enormous war-time profits of arms manufacturers, and of the interlocking directorates of the companies in various nations, and of the coy manner in which English arms are used...
...large number of novices earned primary soaring certificates. But the tedious days of inactivity, punctuated by windy speech-making on the part of local boosters, made crack glider pilots wonder why Elmira should be the only soaring site in the East. One who wondered was Richard Chichester du Pont. Last week he did something about it. Richard du Pont, 24, blond and clean-cut, is the younger son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Like his brother Felix Jr. he is an able airplane pilot, has logged some...
Synthetic Rubber. E. I. du Pont de Nemours &. Co. decided the time was propitious to announce that its synthetic rubber was good enough for all, and cheap enough for some, industrial uses. Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers, research chemist, appeared for the company and said: "Starting with vinylacetylene, a compound made available through the discoveries of Dr. J[ulius] A[rthur] Nieuwland of Notre Dame University, du Pont chemists have synthesized a large number of new compounds closely related to isoprene. At least two of them, chloroprene and bromo-prene, are enormously superior to any other materials as starting points...