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...fully sensed the U.S. public's indignation at Harry Truman's summary firing of the nation's No. 1 soldier, it was an amazing phenomenon. For even to those who looked on his battle plan for Asia with misgiving, Douglas MacArthur was a hero, a brave, powder-stained old warrior-statesman who had already taken his place in history beside Grant and Lee, Pershing and Farragut. The very sound of his name-after a steady diet of heroes who seemed half-ashamed of being heroes at all-seemed to leave millions with a lump in their throats...
MacVicar's idea: if limestone containing fossils were heated to sufficiently high temperatures (about 1,800° Centigrade), the soft stone would burn to powder; at the same time, numerous phosphate-coated fossils, which are less sensitive to heat than the limestone, should remain intact...
Scientists pointed out that the simple MacVicar treatment is limited to limestone (other stones, with different mineral compositions, do not turn to powder even in extreme temperatures) and to certain types of fossils. But there is little doubt that student MacVicar has developed a valuable new trick for paleontologists...
...raised $6,740 with his father's help to buy a 95-acre farm on Brandywine Creek near Wilmington, built Du Pont's first gunpowder mills. From President Thomas Jefferson, who had known the family in France, came the first order for the U.S. Army. Du Pont powder hurled the Navy's shells against the Barbary pirates in 1805, was used in the War of 1812, the War against Mexico, and the Civil War (the Monitor fired Du Pont powder against the Merrimac). U.S. pioneers used Du Pont powder to clear the wilderness, build railroads, raise factories...
...Pont grown too big? The U.S. Government seems to think so. Though it relies on Du Pont's size to build the plant for H-bomb components, the Government keeps trying to cut it down by antitrust suits. Since the original 1912 "powder trust" suit, the Government has brought 20 antitrust prosecutions against Du Pont. The score to date: civil cases-one conviction, one dismissal without trial, one consent decree; criminal cases-one acquittal after trial, one quashed, two nol-prossed, seven nolo contendere. Now six antitrust cases are pending...