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...popular name for the products of its competitors as well. Dry-Ice is solid carbon dioxide, an efficient refrigerant. Last week Dryice Corp., pioneer in the field and largely owned by Capitalist August Heckscher, merged with its old rival Solid Carbonic Co., a concern closely affiliated with the du Pont interests. Although the merged companies will control more than half of the industry's capacity, they will not lack formidable competition Much of it will come from powerful-privately-held Michigan Alkali Co., a rich concern belonging chiefly to John Ford of Detroit (Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass...
...Corp. than could name Edward F. Hutton as chairman, despite the latter's fame as a broker. Simon Guggenheim, president of American Smelting & Refining, is more famed than Chairman Francis Herbert Brownell. General Motors' President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. is far more in the public eye than Lammot du Pont, chairman...
...powerful men who appeared at the Geneva Conference last week were Col. William Taylor, representing the du Pont interests; and bluff "Big Navy Bill," Mr. William B. Shearer. At the Geneva Conference of 1927 to which President Coolidge sent a particularly strong U. S. Delegation, Mr. Shearer, according to charges made in the Press, was able to organize an anti-disarmament lobby so powerful that it wrecked the Conference. Du Pont's Taylor sat a while in the Conference gallery. But "Big Navy Bill" disdained for the most part to watch so paltry a show as the Conference...
Married. Francis V. du Pont, 37. of Wilmington, Del., son of the late Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont; and Janet M. Gram, 24, of Buffalo, N. Y.; in Baltimore. Present was the bridegroom's brother-in-law. Delaware's Governor C. Douglass Buck...
...five unexploded bombs were removed, at the end of a long pole, to a quarry near Easton. Charles V. Weaver, an explosive expert from the du Pont works in Wilmington, undertook the risky business of opening them to see what they were made of. With a knife at the end of a pole he undid one package, set to work on another, putting a stone on the top while he cut away