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...
Mess Hall, one of eight in construction camp, served meals family style to 45,000 contraction workers. In one 18 month period they dished out 10 million eggs, 1.5 million pounds of chicken, 2.3 million pounds of beef, 2.3 million loaves of bread,...
These 61 men and women, and the files, machines and other equipment that surround them, represent the force required to handle the DuPont Company's annual tax bill. In 1952, total taxes and re-negotiation for DuPont amounted to $395 million, more...
Whiskey Island, Cleveland OH- Photo shows freighter being unloaded at the ore docks. This is done by Clam Shell Buckets. Each bucket will pick up from 12 to 17 tons of ore in one bite. The buckets load is weighed automatically, between 8 million...
Three parts per million of hydrogen and 10 parts per million of oxygen can be detected in titanium metal by apparatus operated by this technician at the DuPont Company's Newport, Delaware plant. Oxygen makes the metal hard and brittle, thus amount...
Automatic controls for treatment of wastes at DuPonts Memphis TN plant insure that effluent is made harmless before it is discharged into nearby stream. Waste treatment area includes two large eight hour retention basins and a smaller one hour...
One of two eight hour retention ponds at DuPonts Memphis, TN plant where trade waste effluent from cyanide operation is treated. From these ponds the effluent goes to a one hour retention basin to insure completion of cyanide destruction and then...
Waste from manufacturing operations at DuPonts Memphis, TN plant receives special treatment before it is finally discharged into nearby stream, Building in background houses automatic controls. Pipes carry chlorine, caustic and steam, which are...
Typed caption: "Three parts per million of hydrogen and 10 parts per million of oxygen can be detected in titanium metal by apparatus operated by this technician at the DuPont Company's Newport, Del. plant. Oxygen makes the metal hard and brittle,...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Agriculture; Firearms;
Table of Contents: The payoff; Cool profits for manufacturers; United Nations, N.Y.; Neoprene takes the floor; Silos to smokestacks; White sheep, white sheep; Squeezing out waste; Getting the brush off; They raise more roses; Investment in safety;...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Textile industry; Toothbrushes; Pest control; Paint industry; Agriculture;
Table of Contents: Taking the heat off industrial workers; Rising chemical stars; Pressure cooking squeezes color into the man-made fibers; New horizons 10,000 feet down; Dacron on duty; Spare that toothbrush; Giving suede a new face; Harnessing...
Table of Contents: Man-made dyes: the first 100 years; Pepperell peps up striped sheets; Brighter skins for modern buildings; Travel light, and love it; The news behind new car wax; Rocket engines sit for their portraits; bucket and brush go...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Firearms; Gasoline; Textile industry; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: Textile tough guy; Tomorrow's managers; The latest in shotguns; Jackknife sculpture; Where's gasoline going; New look in books; Deep freeze skis; Tale of precipitous trail; Finishing school for fibers; titanium's talent scouts;...
Table of Contents: Skiing the slopes in synthetics; Super signs for superhighways; Shortcut canal across Florida; 40 million home couturieres; Predictable seals for sanitary pipes; Fight against blight; Philadelphia's atomic powerhosue; What's new.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Textile industry; Plastics industry; Ice; Housing; Glue;
Table of Contents: A leap ahead in lubricants; New air of structural importance; The mighty module for microelectronics; The ice age: a modern version; Coating to charm a community; Hydraulic lift for six million tons of iron; The house the air...
Table of Contents: Safer tracks for thoroughbreds; Busy, and getting busier; Innovation in the olive groves; The carge of the light tackle brigade; The rockets' million dollar glare; A versatile web for varied assignments; they have your number;...
Table of Contents: Sound investment at last national bank; Seekers of animal secrets; IMPACT: 40 million parts later; Technologies in tandem; Newcomers to the automotive assembly line; An edge on performance; Redecorating the roadside oases;...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Textile industry; Dyeing;
Table of Contents: Touches of luxury at the Ritz-Carlton; Don't use low-grade detonators; Stripping a sand pit by blasting; Collier's binds a million books in Fabrikoid; Sales value of paint specialties; Dye difficulties disappearing; Holiday...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Automobile industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Something worthy to be remembered; Ditch blasting within city limits; A river of chocolates; Pyralin helps madam select her dress; Ditching through rock; Duco finish for railway equipment and rolling stock; Accordion-pleated...
