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...Pont Company has awarded Radcliffe a $10,000 post-graduate fellowship in chemistry, mathematics, or physics. It will be awarded to a promising first year graduate student who is specializing in one of the three disciplines...
With aid from du Pont and the Ford Foundation, among others, he was able to meet the competition of scholarships offered by other professionals schools. "The vigor of the campaign--for such it was--was rather unusual for an institution of higher learning," Sizer reports...
...David Wolper documentary on the Du Pont Show of the Week, made Hollywood war movies look like so much stagecraft...
Paint & Precedent. The other suit involved Du Pont and American Potash & Chemical Corp.. both of which have undertaken to produce titanium dioxide for paint pigments in new California plants. Recently, after helping design the Du Pont plant, Chemical Engineer Donald E. Hirsch, 38, a Du Pont employee for twelve years, was hired away by American Potash, whose plant is not yet completed. Du Pont pleaded that it had spent $15 million developing the process, and argued that Hirsch could not work for a competitor without giving away Du Pont secrets. American Potash insisted it had already acquired the knowledge...
...both the Du Pont and Goodrich suits, the judges issued temporary restraining orders, then settled back to probe precedent before making final decisions. Many decisions seem to favor the complaining companies. In one 1944 case a New York court allowed a Fairchild aircraft vice president to go to work elsewhere but enjoined him for five years from any activity remotely linked to a then-secret Fairchild process for cooling aircraft engines. The problem of trade secrets has lately become more acute: much of today's corporate research is done under Government contract and hence cannot be patented. Often...