The whole building in front of the new Franc Jewelry Store was wrapped inc cellophane with a brig ribbon around it for the grand opening here in Alexandria, Virginia on August 4th. Shown at the ribbon cutting officially opening the new store are...
Correspondence from Charles Rutledge regarding his opening remarks for the Hosiery Manufacturers Convention as well as statistics on nylon shipments according to denier.
Text from back of image: "To prove that Arveta Robner(?), 15 year old schoolgirl, was in no danger when she fell 1,000 feet at Roosevelt Field without her parachute opening, Henry Bushmeyer today took two jumps entangling himself in his 'chute...
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...
Table of Contents: Business passes in review; Pyralin model of the Shenandoah is used for scientific tests; Quarrying a canal in the heart of a city; Learn how to shoot at Camp perry; Opening a new railroad in Kentucky; There is no all-purpose...
Table of Contents: Business outlook; We amputate a stack; Campal, a real pal; Duco-finished car wins at Indianapolis; Battling the bandits with Pyralin; Proper use of permissibles; Opening a new mine in Illinois; Railroad work at Central City,...
Article from 'Avon and You' in 1967 recollecting the opening of the Newark, Delaware branch 15 years earlier, including photographs of employees who started in Newark in 1952
But for television these patients at the Metropolitan Sanatorium atop Mount McGregor would have missed the opening game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 19th. From their wheelchairs at the Sanatoriam-180 miles from New...
New York: Students cross SDS picket line outside Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus here March 25th after members of the Students For a Democratic Society (SDS) called a one day strike. The SDS is demanding an end to ROTC training on...
Some idea of how the kickers toe feels to a football is gained in this unique high-speed photograph by Professor Harold E. Edgerton of MIT. Professor Edgerton pioneered in the application of high speed electronic flash photography to the study of...
Gibbons reports brisk sales and his refusal to supply Sacramento powder dealers. He reports that a fireworks operation will be opening in San Francisco soon, and he requests a shipment of charcoal, nitre, sulphur, and mealed powder.
