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Checkup Below Ground. In the Southern Illinois fields, New Orient No. 2, operated by the Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co., was known as a safe mine. It had killed men in explosions before, but relatively small accidents, in the philosophy of the miner, are inevitable. It was modern, mechanized, efficient -and huge: the biggest shaft coal mine in the world. Its twelve miles of tunnels produced record yields of bituminous coal: 15,385 tons in one eight-hour shift...
Delaware (Wilmington); Secretary: William F. Gresham, A.M. '34, Ph.D. '36, duPont Experimental Station, Wilmington...
Antiquing is one of the favorite sports of the nation's rich. Just about the biggest sportsman of all is Wilmington's Henry F. du Pont. Since 1928, Du Pont has spent about $20 million to fill his 185-room Delaware mansion, "Winterthur," with nothing but the best in U.S. antiques...
Nobody paid much attention at the time, but John Williams knew what he was doing. In 1946 he and his wife filed returns totaling $22,500 with the collector in Wilmington. Through a tip (whose source he still guards), Williams learned that not a cent of the payment had been credited to his account. Right after his election, he started a one-man investigation that unearthed a $30.000 embezzlement and the juggling of 2,000 tax accounts at Wilmington. Williams was even more aroused by another discovery: the Internal Revenue Bureau in Washington had known about the embezzlements for months...
Plots & Shots. All his life, says Bennett, Ford lived in fear of enemies, real and imaginary. At various times he imagined that the Jews, the Catholic Church, and above all Wilmington's Du Ponts, were out to get him. Once he had Bennett send an agent to Wilmington to nose out what the Du Ponts were doing in, synthetic rubber. When the agent died suddenly, Bennett sent another who, by coincidence, suffered a fatal stroke. Cried Ford: "Harry, don't send any more men down there . . . they're killing them...