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...campaign. C.I.O. Boss Walter Reuther thinks that the recent practice of going after small companies first, in trying to organize an industry, is wrong. He aims to hit the big ones and expects the little ones to fall in line. Prime target: the chemical industry, and specifically, Du Pont, in which 75% of the employees belong to independent (company) unions...
...Carothers Chair in pure research is financed annually by the Du Pont Corporation. An outsider is invited here to take the regular place of the Carothers Professors. Bartlett, whose year as chairman ends this spring, will be free of all administrative and teaching duties, and will devote full time to his research group. E. Bright Wilson will become chairman...
...ancestor of Trio, Flesh and Fantasy is a splice of three separate stories. Trio, however, is a trilogy, Flesh and Fantasy an anthology. The only things these three tales have in common are a supernatural fizz and heavy-handed direction. Director Julien Duvivier (Un Carnet du Bal, Tales of Manhattan) pioneered the splicing art, but he keeps fantasy firmly earthbound in this 1943 effort. Granted, the writing is usually abominable ("Remember the boatman's song at twilight at Amalfi, the scent of orange blossoms on the road to Damascus," etc., etc.), but the absence of a light touch accentuates triteness...
High-Pressure Lure. With these bright prospects, Union Carbide and Du Pont (which calls its plastic polythene) will soon have new competition from Texas Eastman, Dow, and probably National Petro-Chemicals, Spencer Chemical, and Monsanto. The two leaders, however, already have a big head start and valuable experience in poly production, which involves ultra-high pressures (equal to the pressure in the barrel of a 5-in. Navy antiaircraft gun when it is fired). Says Bakelite's President Bunn: "We have the lead and we intend to keep...
...Manufacturers Philco and Du Mont demonstrated machines designed to get a much-better-than-ordinary picture from TV film. Using prisms and a new light source, the machines (already in production) scan the film continuously, thus eliminating the flicker of ordinary film projection...