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...note at the beginning of this novel. But that will prevent few readers from noting a more than surface resemblance between the Barons and the Du Ponts, another clannish French family that fled the French Revolution, settled in Delaware, and rose to great wealth and power from a small powder mill on Brandywine Creek, near Wilmington...
...bidder, then makes the highest bid himself. The elders agree to the coup, provided he will take two cousins into the business as balance wheels. The three of them-headstrong Stuart, flamboyant Raoul, a promoter and organizer, and cautious David, a slick man with figures-proceed to gobble small powder companies by the dozens and build Baron into a giant U.S. powder trust...
...Western Avenues. "It was Henry Ford who made the automobile," it thundered, "but it was the Democratic Party that gave you the social system which enabled you to buy the cars." While Chicagoans headed home for dinner, the voice continued to sound. When traffic began to thin out, a powder-blue Ford station wagon with four loudspeaker horns on its roof wheeled off from Archer and Western and headed across town...
...tooth powder had been tested first in the laboratory by Dr. Helmut A. Zander of Tufts College Dental School. Then schoolchildren in Walpole, Mass, were used as human guinea pigs. In the first year, 216 children at the Stone School, who used powder containing penicillin, got 55% fewer cavities than 162 children at the Plimpton School, who used a powder identical in ingredients except for the penicillin. In the second year, the Stone School showed 54% fewer cavities than Plimpton, which seemed to prove that mouth bacteria did not become resistant to penicillin...
...Zander also found that only six out of almost 4,500 subjects later tested were sensitive to the penicillin powder or became sensitive to penicillin after using it. But many doctors and dentists were still not convinced that it was a good idea to use penicillin indiscriminately in the mouth. If there were no unfavorable reactions, they argued, it must be because the penicillin was immediately flushed out of the mouth-in which case it would have little or no effect on tooth decay, either. There was still a lot to be said for a tooth cleanser consisting of nine...