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...company were named in an anti-trust suit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Named with him were 1) I.C.I.'s deputy chairman, Lord Melchett; 2) E. I. du Pont de Nemours, Inc., Board Chairman Lammot du Pont and President Walter Samuel Carpenter Jr.; 3) Remington Arms Co. and its president, Charles Krum Davis...
...bets, $25 to $100 apiece. All were before mid-May - when, so he said, he first learned of the rule prohibiting such wagers. When Landis demanded a fuller accounting of such goings-on Bill Cox 1) refused, 2) sold his Phillies' stock to a Du Pont vice president...
Died. Richard Chichester du Pont, 32, gliding champion of the '30s, special assistant on gliders to the Chief of the U.S. Air Forces; in a glider crash; near March Field, Calif. Son of A. Felix du Pont of the Delaware chemicals clan, he set several soaring records between 1933 and '39, was National Soaring champion for three years...
During the past two months the Carney's Point, NJ. plant of Kinetic Chemicals (a joint General Motors-Du Pont subsidiary) bloomed with a 20% expansion. But the Army kept asking for more, and still more Freon. WPB tightened up. Kinetic now has under way another 75% plant expansion. But for the next six months, at least, civilians who want Freon for "comfort cooling" will do without. Notable victims: Price Boss Prentiss Brown, Congressman Sol Bloom, whose office air conditioning was cut off fortnight ago when the Freon leaked...
General Motors called on Du Pont to devise a cheap, quick method of manufacture. Kinetic Chemicals was set up in 1931, with Frigidaire the one & only customer. Gradually, other manufacturers began to eye Freon respectfully, began to design their machinery accordingly. By the time WPB called a halt on electric refrigerators early last year, all but two U.S. refrigerator makers were using Freon...