Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paste, Spray Glaze is a special Du Pont silicone glaze. It outshines wax and other films, lasts as long or longer, yet costs no more than...
...PONT SPRAY GLAZE...
Dull the Shine. Often Du Pont does not even have time to make finished drawings, but has the bolts of cloth he orders cut and sewn from work sketches. He has two days to gather material, suits, dresses, underwear, stockings, shoes, brassières, furs and jewelry for everybody in the show from principals to walk-ons. It is the last-minute scramble that is most harrowing. Every man and woman in the show gets one fitting only. Next to the last day, they are fitted at the rate of one every 20 minutes. If anything is wrong, there...
Last week, when The Chocolate Soldier went on the air, Designer du Pont was on hand with a Flit gun. If any dress or suit was too bright or shiny for the TV cameras, he was there to spray it with liquid wax to dull the luster. As TV's top costume designer, Du Pont knows that there is a limit to how brilliant a dressmaker should be. That limit is reached when viewers start looking at the clothes rather than at the people wearing them...
...rushed headlong into titanium production without first laying out a centralized, carefully detailed program. As many as eight Government agencies from the Defense Department to the National Research Council all had a hand in titanium, sometimes worked at cross purposes. By funneling $55 million into new plants for Du Pont, Titanium Metals Corp. and Cramet, Inc., the Government managed to jump production from 1,000 tons of titanium sponge (i.e., titanium pig) in 1952 to an estimated 10,000 tons this year. But manufacturers complain that titanium is pesky to fabricate, needs special machines, and the quality of the metal...