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That night the police combed the Left Bank looking for associates' of the four they had arrested. They should have looked in the Cáfe L'Oasis, near the Pont Louis-Philippe, where, for years, two clubs have met: "Les Insulaires," a group of small merchants who liked to read their poems to each other, and the "Orphéon Cydo-Artiste-Cercle," a group dedicated to playing the flute while riding bicycles. The two groups had got alone fine for years until Mourre" deserted his religious studies and joined the Insulaires. After that meetings grew...
...Pepper (who said bitterly that Smathers had "stabbed me in the back") was campaigning just as hard. Smathers' sound truck played Dixie at every crossroads; so did Pepper's. The Senator cried that his opponent was a tool of the rich in general and of the Du Pont interests in particular. And to win favor with Florida's numerous old folks, Pepper backed the Townsend Plan, lock, stock & barrel...
Corncob Nylon. With its prize plastic, nylon, Du Pont had been experimenting at a Niagara Falls pilot plant. Object: to make one of nylon's basic ingredients (adipontrile) from a chemical (furfural) obtained from corncobs and oat hulls. This had proved so successful that capacity will be doubled this year, to produce enough adipontrile to use up 200,000 lbs. of corncobs yearly...
...Pont, which attributes some 60% of its 1949 business to the development of new products, has many other big projects for 1950. By year's end, its huge new $30 million Experimental Station near Wilmington, Del., headquarters for the bulk of Du Pont research, will be finished. By summer, a new plant at Camden, S.C. will be ready to start spinning 6,000,000 lbs. a year of Du Pont's new synthetic fiber, Orion, on which it has spent $22 million for research and plants...
...TIME, Dec. 13, 1948). Du Pont sees a big future for Orlon in auto tops, tents, etc. Still looking for new products to research, Du Pont recently polled its own employees. Some of the things they would like: a tarnish-proof coating for silverware, a chip-proof nail polish, runproof and snagproof stockings, a way to predetermine the sex of babies...