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...freedom to a self-disciplined, professional, "scientific" form. "The low prices at which cellophane and nylon were introduced . . . were not due to a buyers' strike or to the direct competition of other companies. . . . It reflected a high type of scientific price-making on the part of the Du Pont Company...
...fall of 1939 Japanese silk suffered another blow when Du Pont introduced Nylon, whose elasticity threatened silk's enduring hold on the U.S. hosiery trade. Last summer, in spite of technology and economics. Japan's silk trade with the U.S. was still lively. Then it bumped smack into U.S. foreign policy. The silk crisis, like every other great factor in Japanese life, fell hard into the khaki laps of Japan's Army statesmen...
...points are the Almanac Singers, four young men who roam around the country in a $150 Buick and fight the class war with ballads and guitars. Their recorded collection Songs for John Doe, ably hewed to the then Moscow line, neatly phonograph-needled J. P. Morgan, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and particularly war (TIME, June 16). The three discs of Talking Union, on sale last week under the Keynote label, lay off the isolationist business now that the Russians are laying it on the Germans...
Perhaps to divert attention from General von Stulpnagel's Putsch-&-Jewry show, the Paris weekly L'Appel "exposed" plans for a fantastic "worldwide revolt," predicted Ford and Du Pont millions would back appeasement-loving, ex-Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and several French industrialists and bankers in rigging an early peace. This was to be done by establishing a league of major nations in Europe and Africa to be called Paneurafrica, five leagues of minor nations...
Sharp-looking, energetic as a motor, he was the first British munitions buyer to reach the U.S. in 1914. became, at 34, president and managing director of Canadian Industries, Ltd. (explosives, fertilizers, paint, plastics, industrial chemicals -Canada's Du Pont). Now he had become, as Viscount Halifax said last week, ''the linchpin of the vast organization built up on this side to cooperate with the U.S. Administration in all vital matters of production and supply...