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...deer ranges Central Asia with an alluring odor. Perfumers cannot get enough of the natural musk for their trade, have got chemists to produce trinitro-t-butyl toluene which smells exactly like the real stuff. At Washington, Julian Werner Hill and Wallace Hume Carothers of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. described new ways of imitating musk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists at Washington | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

Divorced. Lammot du Pont, 52 board chairman of General Motors Corp., president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; by Caroline Hynson Stollenwerck du Pont; in Reno. Grounds: "extreme cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 10, 1933 | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...Last week it was flowing back at about the same rate. Some stubborn hoarders, wise to the law, knew they had obtained their gold legally before March 6 and that the U. S. had no Constitutional power to punish them retroactively. Irenée du Pont & wife turned in at Wilmington a 20-year collection of gold pieces paid him for attending board meetings of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: THE CABINET Off Bottom | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...checks and dollar bills over the footlights. Next night Mrs. August Belmont spoke and three of her friends (Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs. Robert Goelet) waved $1,000 checks from the Diamond Horseshoe. Contributions of $10,000, biggest individual ones so far, came from Pierre du Pont and Louis Eckstein who still hopes to be able to give his own opera this summer at Chicago's Ravinia Park. The Metropolitan received unexpected revenue lately when a jigsaw puzzle firm paid for the privilege of using photographs of famed singers, scenes from the opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tourists | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

Until last week a music room the size of a cathedral, a pipe chamber big as a master's bedroom and an initial outlay ranging from $15,000 to $100,000 were requirements for owning a house organ. Wilmington's Pierre S. du Pont, Hollywood's Cecil B. De Mille, New York's Charles M. Schwab, 2,000 other rich Americans and a great number of cinemansions own organs. Instance of Depression's spur to invention, Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. demonstrated in Manhattan last week a new instrument, smaller, cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: House Organ | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

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