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...Minister of War, to permit the importation of "sporting" guns; to a Mexican general "to make his life more pleasant" to a citizen of Honduras who "always gets permits because he advances money to public officials including the President himself" a 4% commission to Chinese officials on a Chinese powder purchase. This a du Pont official admitted was a bribe, adding "it is an old Chinese custom." The State Department, which knows that such customs in China, Latin America or anywhere else will not be changed by official indignation in Washington, sees nothing to be gained by arousing the wrath...
...military secrets to foreign nations by having entered into an agreement for an exchange of patents with Nobel, Ltd. of London. Evidence was an intracompany memorandum objecting to the exchange: "If it could be shown that the du Pont Company had a working agreement with a foreign powder manufacturer, the conclusion could be drawn that the du Pont Company was acting in bad faith with our own government. Congress would have an opportunity to brand us as traitors...
...special. Ruberoid Co., which has not missed a dividend since 1889. announced a 25¢ regular, a 25¢ extra. Ingersoll-Rand, makers of compressors and pneumatic tools, had $2 a share extra for stockholders. So did Draper Corp. of Hopedale, Mass., manufacturers of automatic weaving machinery. Hercules Powder's extra was 75¢, Scott Paper's 25¢. Sunshine Mining Co., with 14 Idaho lead and silver mine claims known as the Yankee Boy and Yankee Girl groups, had 4¢ extra to add to a 16¢ dividend...
Valet MacDuffy packed his bags, but President Roosevelt had plenty of things to do and people to see before leaving Washington last week for his inspection of the Tennessee Valley Authority and his annual autumn vacation in Georgia. When they were all done and seen he put on a powder-blue suit, drove to the Union Station, boarded his special train...
...trucks were motorized. They opened a plant in New Jersey to manufacture regular commercial trucks, had to abandon it when Mack Truck and others retaliated by invading the fire apparatus field. Just before Depression American-La France bought out Foamite-Childs Corp. of Utica, makers of "Foamite," a patented powder which mixes with water to produce a fire-fighting gas said to be superior to the old sulphuric acid, soda and water. As the biggest manufacturer of fire engines and apparatus in the U. S., American-La France & Foamite Corp. has for years supplied nearly every important municipality...