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...
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; 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: 'Tis the season to be baking; an interior design yarn; Weaving a new technology in tires; Tubs terrific; Fashioned for service and rescue; Steel's silent sentry; Retailers raise the roof; A well-documented solution; Overcoming...
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 1910 model Buick towers over the low slung XP-300, a "dream" car built by Buick for experimental purposes. The XP-300 is the latest creation of Charles A. Chayne, seated, vice president of General Motors in charge of the engineering staff. He is...
More than a dozen motors were used to raise, fold, retract and conceal the roof of this unusual 1957 model retractable hardtop convertible. Only 48,394 units were built during the series three year life cycle. The car is now a favorite of special...
Leisenring reports on sales and explains his decision to raise the price of some powder. He notes the increased cost of transportation and advises the DuPont Company to keep a team in Mauch Chunk.
Workmen preparing to raise the country's first nylon music circus tent theater at Birmingham Center, PA. The sunken concrete oval, seating 1,880 is 120 feet wide and 160 feet long.
Bars of TD Nickel, a new alloy developed by DuPont for high temperature use in missiles and space vehicles, are displayed by William Wartel, technical supervisor at the DuPont Metals Center in Baltimore. The starting material is a powder containing...
This stream, near Oxford, Iowa was filled with silt, surface vegetation and roots forcing it to meander through the district. Because of sluggish drainage, heavy rain would raise the stream over an adjoining road. Under the direction of DuPont...
Typed caption: "DuPont bacteriologists at the Stine Laboratory in Newark, Del., raise cultures of disease-causing bacteria and study the effects of different chemicals on them. Here a technician removes bacteria from test tubes, left, to...
New Garden, Pa. A poor picture of one of a series of pulley wheels which transferred power from Mill Water Wheel to the barn to raise hay from barn floor into mow.
