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...Signed by Hercules Powder Co. was a $25,000,000 contract for a new powder mill, the second of thirty-three prospective plants...
...Some rebellious dancers, pining for more significant footwork, have balked at ballet's limitations. First of the rebels was the late great U. S. Dancer Isadora Duncan, who took to stage dancing like a Baptist to water, discarded ballet's fouettes and entrechats for natural movements, its powder-puff skirts for Greek robes...
...Ponts have contracted to build and operate a $25,000,000, Government-owned powder plant near Charlestown, Ind. Capacity: 200,000 Ib. per day. "This plant will be completed and in operation within ten months. In 1917 the contract for construction of the first powder plant was not signed until seven months after we had entered...
...week (TIME, July 15). announced a "general agreement" on the Rolls-Royce job, considered asking for an RFC loan. Meanwhile the War Department made a deal with Du Pont (which virtually forswore the munitions business after the last war) to operate a projected $30,000,000 smokeless-powder plant at Louisville. First of four such plants to be built and owned by the U. S., it will have a daily capacity of 200,000 lb., more than double the present total U. S. output...
Chemicals: Ammonia and ammonium compounds, chlorine, dimethylaniline (for explosives), diphenylamine (for smokeless powder), nitric acid, nitrates, nitrocellulose, soda lime, sodium acetate, strontium chemicals (for explosives), sulfuric acid...