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...mouth, yachting cap on head, Calvin Coolidge spent some of his happiest hours aboard her. Then Herbert Hoover ordered the Mayflower sold. Six times the Navy called for bids before a syndicate bought her fire damaged hulk, laid her up for seven years. Auctioned off this month at Wilmington, N. C. for $16,000, rumors of the Mayflower's reblossoming were thick around her wharf last week. But the 42-year-old beauty seemed doomed at last as final purchasers were announced, Virginia's Suffolk Scrap Iron & Metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Mayflower | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Established here in 1936, the DuPont fellowship is one of the seven large scholarships recently alloted to various universities by the Dupont Company of Wilmington, Delaware to stimulate advanced research in chemical science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RICE GRADUATE GIVEN $2,000 DUPONT AWARD | 3/17/1938 | See Source »

...Wilmington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Sales. Second ambiguity in the lists is that they give no figures on sales. When The Citadel was a leading seller in the small, busy Matthews Book Store in Omaha, Neb. and in the medium-sized, modern Greenwood Book Shop in the Delaware Trust Bldg. in the heart of Wilmington, it was not doing so well at Kroch's in Chicago, one of the six biggest bookstores in the U. S., which sells ten times more books each year than do the other stores. But all three stores had equal standing in the Herald Tribune list. Before Red Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best-Sellers | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...WILMINGTON, DEL. Jan 25; Harvard will be one of 18 American colleges which will have a post-graduate student working under a Du Pout Chemical research fellowship next year, it was announced at the company here today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUPONT FELLOWSHIP | 1/26/1938 | See Source »

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