The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
Table of Contents: Battling hidden hunger; Wash-and-wear shirts; New caboose on the scouring train; Rivets for the jet age; Woodland paratroopers; Dacron joins the fire fighters; A matter of switchable parts; Passing the mop test; Driver education...
Table of Contents: Smooth way through a rugged wilderness; The well-protected vote; Down to size; Covering a multitude of things; Replica of a wind-borne heritage; Bonus for the environment; Fending off foragers; Corralling copper in the land of...
Table of Contents: A leg up on luxury; Made for each other; King of the road; Long-distance diagnosis; All aflutter over flags; The DBE difference; The everyman open; Log cabin's new quarters; A report on electronic publishing; Over the bounding...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Automobile industry; Safety; Roller skating; Railroad passenger cars; Fire prevention; Textile industry; Agriculture; Conservation of natural resources; Health care;
Table of Contents: Softening the blow; Rollerblade gives skaters a brake; Fire-safety training; What a difference a grade makes; A leg up on stains; The proof was in the counting; The oil is coming; Underlining patient care; A pressing concern for...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Packaging; Pork; Whaling; Buildings; Textile industry; Health care; Printers; Floor coverings; Agriculture;
Table of Contents: Corian lives largei n NYC; Prosperity in pork; A whale of a story; Dwarfing Mount Olympus; Selling the invisible difference; A second chance at life; The new inkjet set; Hoteling in the office; On a roll; Planting the seeds of...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Building materials; Automobile racing; Pet supplies; Pet food industry; Soybeans; Clocks & watches; Plastics industry; Floor coverings;
Table of Contents: The glass ceiling; Science + talent = 24; Morsels for managerie; DuPont soy polymers gets growing; Look at the time; The clean team; What a difference a texture makes; Carpet smart; News in brief.
Table of Contents: The science of security; Corian easy elegance for the bath; Taking the very high road; A smart decision; Cooperating for cotton; A fashion statement; Answering an angry sear; Weaving a partnership; Vespel makes a reel difference;...
Table of Contents: Chemistry rescues wealth from industrial wastes. DuPont keeps step with progress in aviation; Creating a new vogue in boudoir accessories; Duco sits with the moderns; Quarrying practices; Prize winners all; Mining gold in...
Table of Contents: The sink-and-float process; DuPont at two world's fairs; Schoolmates; Backing up the blueprints; Neoprene in the home, and in your car; A new note in furniture; Ski time in the Andes; Forty million hamburgers; What's the...
Table of Contents: Molders of a better destiny; Tapered nylon paint-brush bristles; Scrap for our nation's needs; Salvaging waste light for victory; They've got to eat to win; A bottle seal signs up; A packing problem solved; In the tiny crystal is...
Letter from William du Pont to his secretary, Charles Lennig, concerning the large difference in his offer and the current owner's asking price for the Montpelier Estate. Du Pont authorizes Lennig to raise the offer to $70,000.
A gallery of contrasts-striking photos illustrates the wide difference between primitive methods and modern. Women harvesting wheat near Orvieto in Italy one of them using a cycle the other gathering up and binding the sheaves. This method is in...
These enlarged sections show the difference in structure and appearance between a surgical suture of nylon monofilament (top) and ones of silk. Smooth, solid nylon is stronger and less irritating than silk to the bodys tissues. Nylon filaments are...
Typed caption: "In upper Hagley works was a pair of wheel mills, one a small building and the other much larger, having been built at different times. One of these mills was originally used for purposes other than a wheel mill, later the second...
