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...Tisdale, a big, florid Alabaman of 45, is director of Du Font's new anti-pest laboratory which was formally opened last week in the suburbs of Wilmington, and of which the formal name is Pest Control Research Section, Grasselli Chemicals Department, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. A handful of newshawks assembled in the gleaming Nemours building, lunched with Lammot du Pont, who shook each one's hand, spent the afternoon in the battleship-grey laboratory, wound up at the Hotel du Pont...
...Pont has manufactured insecticides (Bordeaux Mixture, Calcium Arsenate, Dutox, Spreader & Sticker, Lime Sulphur Solution) since 1929. Its new laboratory is devoted to war on all sorts of pests- insects, fungi, worms, bacteria, weeds, rodents, marine plants, marine animals- and claims therefore to be unique. On its staff are two plant pathologists, six entomologists, four chemists, some 20 assistants. With an initial investment of $100,000, the laboratory's operating cost is expected to be $125,000 a year. Object is to find new and better insecticides which Du Pont can sell to farmers, nurserymen, fishermen, manufacturers, housewives...
...story behind that reduction is the story of Francis Davis' stewardship of U. S. for the past eight years. In 1927 the du Fonts bought control of U. S. Rubber, plucked Francis Davis from the presidency of a du Pont subsidiary (Viscoloid), told him to salvage what had been the No.1 U. S. rubber company as late as 1925. Whittling the company's debt of $81,000,000 to $53,233,000, Rubberman Davis consolidated operations, modernized tire-making methods, pushed other rubber products, went in for Lastex, a patented, elastic spun yarn which is knitted or woven...
...What happened in the most important instant of the race was best recorded, not by a reporter, but by the $50,000 electric camera at the finish. It clicked when Mrs. C. S. Howard's Seabiscuit, who had led the field coming into the stretch, and William du Pont's Rosemont, who had come up fast in the last furlong, went under the wire together. Developed two minutes later, the photograph showed Rosemont leading by a nose (see cut). Third was Indian Broom. Odds against Rosemont, the favorite, were about 4-to-1. His share of the year...
...been a bonanza for its backers, it has been even more spectacularly profitable, in the past week, for a young race horse owner whose stable has never before ranked high on the list of U. S. money-winners. A few days before Rosemont won the Handicap, William du Pont's Fairy Hill won the third Santa Anita Derby, one of the second richest U. S. races, on Washington's Birthday, for which the stake was $62,000 (TIME, March 1). It was the first time one owner had won both of Santa Anita's major races...