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...explosive was announced to newsmen last week at the award of an Army & Navy "E"' pennant to a Du Pont plant at Perth Amboy, N.J., where hexamine is made. The other ingredients of the explosive are secret, but the Army described its properties: it explodes faster and more violently than TNT. Apparently it has been used so far only in bombs, for which it is ideal...
...before the the--could you please explain this?" Mr. Bunje. "Take it from me life in the South Sea Islands is all right." Mr. Block, "Boy, could I have a good time in the South Sea is lands," Mr. Dutton, "Life wasn't like this with Du Pont." Mr. LeVee, "I've got the picture." Mr. Painter, "I asked a Kappa to marry me, but she though it more fun to stay in college...
...southern French sector and the Eighth Army's sector, the story was the same. First the Germans withdrew. They fell back all around Pont du Fahs. Then they counterattacked, and the Allies were stalled...
First director of the U.S. glider program was Major Lewin B. Barringer, who was lost in a bomber over the Caribbean last January. Last week the Army called in a civilian expert, Richard C. du Pont (of the Delaware Du Ponts), pioneer sailplane pilot, to take full charge of glider production and training...
Last week Du Pont announced that two models of Mr. Burnham's folder, to fold three sizes of bandage, are now in mass production. With high industrial grandeur, the bulletin added that Lammot du Pont, chairman of the Board of Directors, applied the inventor's basic principle and developed a working model that has been adopted as standard by the Delaware Red Cross for folding the smallest size dressing...