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...after fighting a fire all night; Irénée's wife was permanently injured in a blast that killed 36 workmen in 1818; Lammot du Pont, father of the brothers Pierre, Lammot and Irénée, was mortally injured in 1884 while trying to "quench" some fuming nitroglycerin to avert a disaster. *Christiana, which still holds 27% of Du Pont stock, paid $200 a share for Coleman du Pont's stock. Each share of Du Pont common has since risen to a market value (counting splits) of $11,779 and has paid a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Wizards of Wilmington | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Officials talked to the students at midnight and were still meeting at 2 a.m. this morning. Captain of Detectives Patrick F. Ready, who joins investigations only when arson is suspected, questioned the students about a missing fire extinguisher. The students said they used one to quench the flames, but could not show it to officials. Randall offered no theories about how the fire started...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Blaze In Four Days Hits Claverly | 3/7/1951 | See Source »

Auxiliary Equipment. In Syracuse, N.Y., while an usher was looking for an extinguisher to quench a fire in a wastebasket, moviegoers put out the flames with artificial orange juice from an automatic drink dispenser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...football game in Princeton does not quench the weekender's thirst for sports, it might be worth noting that Laurent Dauthuille and Paddy Young, two of the finest middleweights around, have a ten-round go at 10 p.m. tonight in Madison Square Garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glittering Gotham Beckons to Pleasure Seekers | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

Husk and Fraser are not fire-fighters in the usual sense of the word. Only once have they actually been on hand to quench a fire; they happened to be checking protective equipment in the hall where it broke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pre-Revolutionary Fire Was College's Last Major Blaze | 3/10/1950 | See Source »

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