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...world's greatest chemical empire, the master technician of U.S. industry. It has 72 plants in 25 states, employs about 85,000 people, turns out 1,200 different types of products, and last year chalked up $1,297,000,000 in sales. Its wizardry in its Wilmington laboratories periodically conjures up entire new industries. Duco, the first quick-drying auto finish, revolutionized U.S. auto production. Cellophane changed the packaging habits of everybody from butchers, bakers and cigarette makers to orchid growers. Nylon changed the hosiery habits of U.S. women, is helping to revolutionize the textile industry. Fully...
...committee meets every Wednesday at Du Pont's GHQ: the ninth floor of Wilmington's Du Pont Building. It meets all day, lunching with top men from the line departments and lower-echelon people who get to know the top command in this fashion. The top command also learns to know those in the lower echelons. Says Greenewalt: "I started looking for my successor the first year I was in office...
...bent. His father, Dr. Frank Greenewalt, was resident physician at Philadelphia's Girard College. His mother, the former Mary Elizabeth Hallock, was a concert pianist, and patented her own invention, the use of varicolored lighting to harmonize with the moods of music. Both parents were old friends of Wilmington's Du Ponts; Mrs. Greenewalt's sister, Ethel Hallock, had married William K. du Pont, brother of Pierre, Lammot...
Last week Boston's Deerfoot Farms, a National Dairy subsidiary, and H. P. Hood & Sons thought the new product was doing fine. National put concentrated milk on sale last November in Wilmington, Del., liked the results so well that it decided to go into Boston for a bigger test. Hood immediately began to compete with National. Borden's and Beatrice Foods Co., a pioneer in concentrate experiments, are selling concentrated milk in Ohio and Illinois...
Married. Ethel du Pont Roosevelt, 34, heiress to a Du Pont chemicals fortune, divorced wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; and Benjamin S. Warren Jr., 38, Detroit lawyer; both for the second time; near Wilmington...