Total cost to build plant was $1,300,000,000 and involved more than 8,100 companies of which 5,745 were small firms. More than 138,000 purchase orders costing more $500,000,000 were placed. More than 87,000 orders totaling about $245,000,000 went...
Correspondence regarding a shipment of 500 bags of saltpeter on board the "John Gilpin" for Boston. Ashburner has been unable to send shipments to New York or Philadelphia.
Correspondence regarding the "John Gilpin" shipment of 500 bags and a draft upon Brown Shipley and Company. No change has been noted in the saltpeter market, but a decline is expected.
Account of sales for John Vaughan with DuPont Company. Sales accounts for remainder of the year are in Vaughan records in Accession 500. Customers include (not a complete list): Shepperd & Davis; David Vickers; George Peterson; William Newell,...
A crane size chunk of titanium metal sponge weighing 2,500 pounds reflects growth in DuPont's production of the metal by 1953. World's first small scale commercial production of the metal was announce by DuPont in 1948. Maximum output then was ...
Table of Contents: Agriculture and the War; An Idle Army of 500,000,000; Camphor; The Shotgun in Modern Warfare; Apply Industrial Paints; Making Nitroglycerin; Making Black Blasting Powder; Smokeless Rifle Powders.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: DuPont Gelatin Blasts Tunnels Under the Mississippi; Dynamite Extinguishes Mine Fire; The Blast Heard 'Round the World; Practical Explosives' Efficiency; DuPont Blasting Gelatin Not Low Freezing; Foresight and Hindsight; Lighting...
Above is pictured the beautiful 13th century cathedral at Rheims which was terribly damaged by the German bombs and long range guns during the World War and which is now being restored to its former state of beauty. A donation of $1,000,000 was...
Luncheon given by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Chairman of General Motors, in the Waldorf-Astoria NY for 500 of the nations leading industrialists, business men and publicists. Left to right: William S. Knudsen, National Defense Advisory Commission; Alfred...
The world’s largest and most powerful air cooled airplane engine, the new 18 cylinder 2000 H.P. Wright Duplex-Cyclone, was announced Monday by the War department and is being inspected here by (left to right) VP George Chapline, Chief Engineer...
Luncheon given by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Chairman of General Motors, in the Waldorf-Astoria NY for 500 of the nations leading industrialists, business men and publicists. Left to right: Paul Hoffman, President Studebaker Corp.; C.F. Kettering, GM VP;...
The 19,500 seat Spectrum (center is flanked by 102,000 seat John F. Kennedy Stadium (left) and 66,000 seat Veterans Stadium in South Philadelphia. The Spectrum is the home of the NHL Flyers and the NBA 76ers and the site of concerts, wrestling,...
A salesman points out the advantages of a four door Ford Model A to a customer in this 1931 photograph taken in a typical showrrom of that period. Some 4,500,000 Model As were sold between late 1927 and the end of 1931.
