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Only two other men not of Du Pont blood and name have held that job since 1802, when Eleuthèree Irénée du Pont founded the company...
...moved around departments to broaden his experience. Greenewalt is a good example. In six years, he shot from $10,800 to $362,760 a year (including bonuses), last year earned $539,000 (including a $400,000 bonus). By paying bonuses to all employees who do an outstanding job, Du Pont makes sure that every man's work is reviewed once a year. Last year it paid $26.7 million in bonuses to 5,908 employees...
...Frank Greenewalt, was resident physician at Philadelphia's Girard College. His mother, the former Mary Elizabeth Hallock, was a concert pianist, and patented her own invention, the use of varicolored lighting to harmonize with the moods of music. Both parents were old friends of Wilmington's Du Ponts; Mrs. Greenewalt's sister, Ethel Hallock, had married William K. du Pont, brother of Pierre, Lammot...
...went off to M.I.T. with no clear notion of what he wanted to be, settled on chemical engineering, but was better known for his eye for pretty girls than for his scholarship. With a B.S. from M.I.T. Greenewalt got a $120-a-month chemist's job at Du Pont, but was still aimless about his future. While watching vats on a graveyard shift at the old Wilmington research lab, he passed the time by practicing the clarinet, spent his off hours courting Margaretta du Pont (Irénée's daughter) his childhood friend. In 1926 they...
...fact that Greenewalt married the boss's daughter did not hurt him at Du Pont, but he still had to make his own way. He became an expert in high-pressure synthesis, a new field which opened the door to all kinds of chemical processes, (e.g., urea, long-chain alcohols), won 18 patents, most of them used by Du Pont. It was Greenewalt's work on nylon-the biggest treasure yet turned up in Du Pont test tubes-which put him far up on the skimmer chart. Du Pont's brilliant scientist, Dr. Wallace Carothers, first materialized...