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...Pepper (who said bitterly that Smathers had "stabbed me in the back") was campaigning just as hard. Smathers' sound truck played Dixie at every crossroads; so did Pepper's. The Senator cried that his opponent was a tool of the rich in general and of the Du Pont interests in particular. And to win favor with Florida's numerous old folks, Pepper backed the Townsend Plan, lock, stock & barrel...
...Du Mont Television Network last week offered a time-and travel-saving substitute for salesmen's conventions. Over a closed circuit from New York to 20 major cities, Du Mont will televise speeches from executives to company employes, permit them to offer comments and ask questions from the "floor" through an audio circuit tied in with the TV hookup. The "Closed Circuit Convention Plan" becomes available on April 1, from 9 a.m. to noon. Price: $11,000 for the first hour, with a 25% discount on additional time. Missing: the wine, women, song and bad jokes of that hitherto...
...serving The Feast as its April banquet. Why it took so long is hard to say, since there is nothing in the book that has not been done already-either much better by Thornton Wilder and Arnold Bennett or just as badly by Marguerite Steen, Taylor Caldwell and Daphne du Maurier...
...Du Pont, which attributes some 60% of its 1949 business to the development of new products, has many other big projects for 1950. By year's end, its huge new $30 million Experimental Station near Wilmington, Del., headquarters for the bulk of Du Pont research, will be finished. By summer, a new plant at Camden, S.C. will be ready to start spinning 6,000,000 lbs. a year of Du Pont's new synthetic fiber, Orion, on which it has spent $22 million for research and plants...
...TIME, Dec. 13, 1948). Du Pont sees a big future for Orlon in auto tops, tents, etc. Still looking for new products to research, Du Pont recently polled its own employees. Some of the things they would like: a tarnish-proof coating for silverware, a chip-proof nail polish, runproof and snagproof stockings, a way to predetermine the sex of babies...