Periodicals; Chemical industry; Copper; Weeds; Quarrying; Plastics industry; Textile industry;
Table of Contents: Wire enamel: this skin for copper; Roto goes modern; Tell them it can happen here; Atoms to kilowatts; Roadside weed killers; The skin specialists; Mylar steps outdoors; The bonus crop; The radiologist: a doctor's doctor; Where...
Table of Contents: the colorful sport of soaring; Gaining a foothold in everything; The ultimate in cleanliness; Railway remedy for tangled traffic; Higher standards in precision recording; Energetic entry in the metals market; Professor Bigelow's...
Table of Contents: Trade, Liberty, Peace; Not By-Products; With an Eye to the Future; Wonderful Lead Cave; Enamel Experience; Increasing Water Flow with Nitroglycerin; Colortone Py-ra-lin; Crude Rubber; Higher Standards in the Luggage Trade;...
Table of Contents: The president's annual report; Higher hurdles for Ol' Man River; Rubber, mankind's friend; Checking package performance for consumers; Fishing lines freed from snarls; Deeping the Detroit River; Now floors for modern; What's new;...
The majestic wing sweep more than 141 feet, of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, is emphasized in this picture. The slender, tapering wings, set back from the elongated nose of the airplane, are a characteristic of the Boeing-designed and developed...
The rear gunner of the Martin bombers are also protected by Plexiglas enclosures which can be revolved mechanically to train multiple machine guns at planes attacking from the rear. Resembling the dome of an astronomical observatory the enclosure...
Due to the extreme care used from the picking of the fruit to the final packing and sealing, the product cannot and does not compete with the imported article primarilt hadndled by oriental methods but the American public shows it is willing to pay...
Text from image: "Everybody wants more money -- but those who get it are those who study and learn their own job and the job next higher up as well. What Job Are You Preparing For Now?"
Nylon will provide for future feminine neckwear, as it has for stockings, a new combination of flattery and practicality. These box pleated organdy frills need no ironing after laundering, which insures retention of a new look. Elaborate neckwear...
Operator Bob Tittle checks a stainless steel centrifuge machine in the nylon salt building at the Belle Works. Despite its higher cost, stainless steel is used in large quantities in piping and equipment throughout the plant to prevent corrosion to...
A new light sensitive transfer material, DuPont Rotofilm, promises to simplify gravure printing, allowing reproductions of higher quality and reduce color printing cost. Rotofilm, like ordinary photographic film, can be processed by automatic...
This picture shows silicon and what researchers expect it to do. The pure element, in the form manufactured by DuPont, is below the ruler. Before it can be used it must be melted down to a solid mass, as at lower left and traces of other elements...
A compacted billet of TD Nickel, DuPont's new high temperature alloy, is hoisted into a hydrogen sintering furnace at the company's Metals Center in Baltimore. The billet is heated to 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit, which raises the density of the new...
Complex chemical operations in the large tetraethyl lead unit at DuPont's Antioch, California plant are handled from a central control room. At operators' fingertips are 200 finely calibrated instruments that keep in balance the process that turn...
The field assemblies are shown under twenty feet of water and behind empty fuel hangers. For the high flux operation, the Atomic Energy Commission has converted a reactor from military to peaceful applications. The objectives of this operation are...
postcards; radio & television towers; radio stations;
on front of card: "WSM - America's Tallest Radio Tower, 878 Feet, Nashville, Tennessee. 323 Feet Higher Than the Washington Monument." on back of card: "Known as the Shield Station, WSM is the broadcasting station of the National Life and...
Text from back of image: "Sometimes called the Super Fortress, this Titan of the air had a wing spread 45 feet greater than the Y1B-17. The XB-15 weighed 13 tons more, was 20 feet longer and three feet higher. Because of its extreme weight (35...
Text from back of photo:'Jean Callizo, famous French aviator, who soared to the height of 42,651 feet, more than 8 miles, and 2 1/2 miles higher than Mt. Everest. His ambition now is to fly across the Himalayas taking photographs over Mt. Everest.'
Typed on back: "Part of the controlled environment in a company town was the company store. Owned and operated by management, food and other goods were readily available to workers and their families even though the items may have been priced a...
