Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Largest U. S. alcohol company is United States Industrial Alcohol Co. But U. S. corporations interested in alcohol include potent E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. The du Pont Company owns 50% of Eastern Commercial Alcohol Corp. Last week U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co., expanding, planned to purchase the other 50% of Eastern Commercial Alcohol Corp. The purchase was to be made from National Distillers Products Corp., which also controls Kentucky Alcohol Corp., second largest U. S. alcohol company, and Old Time Molasses Co. It was also expected that these two subsidiaries would be included in the sale...
...rumored transaction was interpreted as an alliance between U. S. Industrial Alcohol and du Pont, though the du Pont part in the proceedings appeared entirely passive. It is said that the alcohol company has developed a new cellulose acetate process which may be used in the making of du Pont rayon...
...Pont de Nemours, for technical assistance in building ammonia fertilizer factories...
Charter members of the W. O. N. P. R. included: Mrs Pierre Samuel du Pont (Delaware), Mrs. Ralph Martin Shaw (Illinois), Mrs. Meredith Nicholson (Indiana), Mrs. Lothrop Ames (Massachusetts), Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness (New York), Miss Agnes Repplier (Pennsylvania), Mrs. Paul Fitz Simons (Rhode Island), Mrs. George Orvis (Vermont). Like Mrs. Sabin, Mrs. Orvis had left the Republican National Committee to be free to fight Prohibition...
...Mitchell, International Acceptance's Paul Warburg, Standard Oil of New Jersey's Walter Teagle, Ford's Edsel Ford (TIME, May 6). Just as this linking of interests had been interpreted as a linking of Standard Oil and I. G. F. to compete actively with the du Pont interests, so the Ford-I. G. F. consolidation was considered a Standard Oil-Ford-I. G. F. alliance against du Pont and General Motors...