Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasn't until two years later that Camden discovered that E. I. du Pont de Nemours had picked the town as the site for a $17 million plant for processing Orion, a new synthetic fiber...
Antiquing is one of the favorite sports of the nation's rich. Just about the biggest sportsman of all is Wilmington's Henry F. du Pont. Since 1928, Du Pont has spent about $20 million to fill his 185-room Delaware mansion, "Winterthur," with nothing but the best in U.S. antiques...
Last week Du Pont opened Winterthur as a public museum. Guests found over a hundred of its rooms made into authentic re-creations of American living quarters from 1640 to 1840. Winterthur's indoor bowling alley had become an 18th Century shop lane gleaming with china and pewterware. The badminton court was now a cobbled indoor square with fine old house fronts on three sides, and the brick façade of an inn from Red Lion, Del. on the fourth. Even the elevators were finished in antique American paneling. Among the prize exhibits: a set of silver tankards...
Visitors, limited to 20 a day, will pay $2 each (mainly as a token of their seriousness), and will not be restricted by the usual museum ropes, guard rails and glass covers. To make way for the public, Du Pont is building himself a 30-room "cottage" nearby...
...before." In the same way, other complicated problems are dumped in Geier's lap. Samples: ¶ The Air Force wants a tool that can cut 2,800 Ibs. of metal down to a complex wing gear weighing 200 Ibs., with contoured surfaces, tricky drill holes, etc. Pont wants a machine that will crush titanium ore into pieces of a certain size. Because the ore has never been handled before for manufacturing purposes, Cincinnati must first find out its qualities...