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...AHunting, a psychological study of the relations between a mother and her daughter, was inspired by a line from British Poet William Ailingham's The Fairies ("We daren't go ahunting for fear of little men"). Born (1919) Dorothea Graff in Pittsburgh (she married Du Pont Engineer Donovan Cornwell on leaving high school), Author Cornwell began her literary career writing book reviews for the Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator, later turned to short-story writing. In 1942 she won second prize in a Story magazine short-story contest. A devotee of dancing, riding, dogs and South American music, as well...
...Pont this week announced a new product as highly potential as its nylon. It is wood impregnated with chemicals which transform it into a hard, polished material. Engineers call it "compreg...
Impregnated wood is so cheap and versatile that Du Pont claims it will compete with the much more expensive plastics and light metals. Moreover, the process will make usable vast resources of little-used soft woods-maples, poplars, gums, etc. The impregnation process simplifies the making of veneers and plywoods, because pressed and impregnated layers of wood need no glue...
...many corporations, despite hell and high taxes, have demonstrated: 1) a stubborn ability to turn in sound, relatively high 1943 earnings; 2) a new confidence that the large reserves corporations have already salted away are enough to carry them through reconversion. Two bellwether blue chips-General Motors and Du Pont-have already reinforced this view by declaring higher first-quarter dividends this year than...
...market. For more than a year every boomlet has been touched off by heavy buying in $1 to $5 cat-&-dog stocks, fourth-grade foreign bonds, etc. (TIME, March 15, 1943 el seq.). This time the dogs were still in demand, but there was heavy blue-chip investing. Du Pont, up six and a half points to 148, hit a new 1944 high; General Motors, A.T.&T. and Johns-Manville ticked off new highs, and a lot more long-neglected topnotchers did almost as well...