Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...removing all duties within the area. Hundreds of U.S. firms are already preparing for market opportunities. Ford International opened a special office in Brussels to guide its European operations into the common market. H. J. Heinz bought a Dutch plant to produce its 57 varieties for Europe, and Du Pont is hunting for plants in Holland and Belgium. Other branches or new factories have been set up by Argus Chemical in Brussels, Consolidated Electrodynamics in Frankfurt, International Harvester in Heidelberg. Coty International, with branches in three European countries, in February formed an 80%-owned subsidiary in West Germany. Says Coty...
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...from Du Pont last week came a new liquid gas dubbed Freon C-318. While the name was just so much gobbledygook to consumers, the gas itself may play a big part in their lives. If tests prove successful, C-318 will bring a vast expansion of the aerosol industry by making possible a big new pantry of liquid-gas-dispensed foods such as frostings, sandwich spreads, sauces and syrups. Until now, aerosol foods have been slowed by the fact that the liquid gases used in nonfood products have been ruled out by the Food and Drug Administration. (Compressed gases...
...first, few companies saw a commercial market for the aerosol cans because their welded steel walls, necessary to hold their high pressure, made them too heavy (1 lb.). But as Du Pont developed lower-pressure gases, the cans became much lighter, and the aerosol industry started to boom...
Chance for Small Business. The industry is still so new-and there are so many aerosol products yet to be developed-that many small businessmen are pouring into the field. For example, an Australian shepherd wrote to Du Pont about the problem of marking sheep to determine which ones had been vaccinated. So Du Pont developed an aerosol marker. Several hundred shepherds wrote the company to praise the new product, and now one of them plans to market the sheep...