Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover) Along the banks of the meandering Brandywine River, set on a bluff that overlooks nearby Wilmington, stands a cluster of buildings whose occupants are true men of mystery. Many of them work in perpetual semidarkness and others in rooms that seem as barren as the face of Mars. Some spend their days poring over books and others sit for hours staring through picture windows at the 115 acres of their campus-like enclave. The aura of the place is one of uncertainty, as if no one quite knows what will happen next. No one does know. That is what...
Windfall. Last week Du Pont created a stock market flurry by freeing itself of a possession that has proved a distinctly mixed blessing. Meeting in the company's 13-story, Victorian-style headquarters in Wilmington, the directors decided to distribute the final one-third of Du Pont's 63 million shares of General Motors stock among its own shareholders early next year. The directors thus complied with a 1957 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that held that Du Font's ownership of G.M. stock violated the anti-trust laws. Getting rid of the shares under a court order...
Blake's chief immediately got on the phone to Wilmington and won approval for a new, expanded lab budget. Five researchers explored more than 6,000 detailed technical references before concluding that "Blake's Effect" really meant a fresh and important development: a film that directly produces a positive image, doing away with the traditional steps of making a negative and printing a positive. When the specially coated film is exposed to light, certain parts of its emulsion are broken down in a process so mysterious that scientists themselves are a bit baffled. The film can then...
...suburbs, where the pond in the backyard is preferred to the swimming pool. To those at home base, in fact, Du Pont is more than a place of work; it is a way of life in the most thoroughgoing company town in the U.S. The Du Ponts own Wilmington's biggest bank, its only playhouse and its two daily newspapers -and what they do not control in Delaware they decidedly influence...
JAMES P. WARD Wilmington...