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...company with its infinite side lines (Fabrikoid, Duco, Cellophane, Rayon, etc., etc.) has made much more money since the War than when it was providing smokeless powder to all the Allies. Military and sporting explosives now rank tenth among the company's money-making enterprises...
...James River to succor those who had settled at a point where the Appomattox flows into the James. For nearly three centuries thereafter the name of Hopewell had no fame. In October 1914 the du Pont company got an order from the French Government to manufacture nitrocellulose for smokeless powder. The No. 1 U. S. munitions concern built a huge nitrocellulose plant and a new town at Hopewell which before the Armistice had become a throbbing city of 40,000 souls. After the Armistice the du Pont plant was dismantled. Hopewell was again about to fade off the map when...
...surveys for four others and completed no less than 59,680 rock, brush, bag and log dams to check soil erosion. They are spending $4,500,000 experimenting with fertilizers, millions buying power & light systems, millions financing the sale of electrical gadgets, $100,000 trying to make soft coal smokeless. They have built roads, transmission lines, a town and a tourist camp; planted 2,751,000 trees, 7,000 kudzu vines, nine tons of grass seed; started teaching elderly mountaineers trades and have generally created more hubbub than the Valley has seen since Grant took Shiloh in 1862. Most...
...July pollution of Manhattan atmosphere was 1.59 tons per cubic mile, compared to 1.21 tons in July 1932, 1.38 tons in July 1931, 3.82 tons in July 1930. Many a shrewd commuter has privately maintained that he got his best check on current business conditions by counting smoking v. smokeless factory chimneys from his train window...
...morning last week Mr. Francis Breese Davis Jr. looked at the newspaper. In 1909 Mr. Davis was hired by the du Ponts as a civil engineer. Since then he has had one du Pont job after another: black powder, sporting powder, guncotton. smokeless powder, cellulose. General Motors, Pyroxylin, safety glass. Four years ago the du Ponts gave him the toughest job of all: made him president of U. S. Rubber just a few months before the crash. U. S. Rubber, the only great non-Akron rubber company, has had a hard row to hoe, even for a rubber company...