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...George Morris Dorrance, Philadelphia's soup-rich (Campbell) facial surgeon, was saved from drowning in a high surf at Palm Beach's Bath & Tennis Club by munitions-rich Lammot du Pont and two naval officers...
...spring of 1942, the War Department hurriedly bought 21,000 acres of rich farmland at Rosemount, Minn. Farmers were hustled off ("Don't you know there's a war on?") before they could harvest crops already planted. In came the Du Pont Co. with a big job: to build and operate the DPC's $69,000,000 Gopher Ordnance Works...
Item: the reaction must occur at 150° below zero, the next processing at 150° above. This type of process, which may be successful in a test tube, becomes fantastically difficult in a skyscraper-size plant. Butyl production is still negligible. The U.S. can still use Du Pont's neoprene (production: 49,000 tons yearly) for tubes. But the military long ago grabbed the lion's share of that. This left, as the only tube alternative, Buna S, mixed with the priceless crude rubber from the shrinking stockpile. On this basis the U.S. can afford few tubes...
...Theme. The charges followed the pattern of six recent suits against the Du Pont Company, four of them involving I.C.I. The group is alleged to have elimi nated competition by splitting up world markets. Similar deals were supposedly made with Germany's I. G. Farben-industrie and Dynamit Aktiengesellschaft (D.A.G.), ending when World War II began. The complaint broke new ground only in naming I.C.I, as a defendant, in stead of a coconspirator, and by naming Lords McGowan and Melchett...
...this brought an indignant denial from Lord McGowan, a deep British rum ble about "iniquitous charges." From Du Font's President Carpenter came a statement which was wide-eyed with surprise: "The Du Pont Company has for years had an agreement with Imperial Chemical Industries ... to acquire patent licenses. . . . The existence of the agreements has never been concealed. . . . Copies have been in the possession of government agencies for approximately ten years. They have been before several committees of Congress. . . . The action of the Department of Justice at this particular time in our war effort is difficult to understand...