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unusual facts about du Pont



British Dyestuffs Corporation

BDC supplied a comprehensive range of dyes within a competitive market, its most notable foreign competitors were Du Pont and IG Farben.

Galen Kelly

In 1992, Kelly was indicted for allegedly planning to kidnap du Pont heir and Lyndon LaRouche follower Lewis du Pont Smith.

National Sporting Goods Association

Such iconic names as Evinrude, Colt, Remington, Riddell, du Pont, Shakespeare, Coleman, Cramer, Head, Brunswick, Dassler, Easton and Knight are among those whose accomplishments have been immortalized with their Hall of Fame inductions.

Rajiv Dixit

He fought various MNCs like Manforce, Cargill, Coca-Cola, Du Pont, Hindustan Unilever, and Colgate as he considered that these companies are draining the wealth of India, making it poorer.

Rayonier

In 1931, Rainier Pulp and Paper began working with the Du Pont chemical company to produce hemlock pulp for the manufacture of rayon.


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Allaire du Pont

In 1983, Allaire du Pont, Martha F. Gerry, and Penny Chenery became the first women to be admitted as members of The Jockey Club.

Cellophane paradox

In research on the du Pont company arising from his PhD dissertation, Willard F. Mueller and co-author George W. Stocking, Sr. pointed out the error of mistaking a monopolist's inability to exercise market power by raising price above the current price for an inability to have already exercised market power by raising price significantly above the competitive price.

David Loxton

Du Pont/Columbia Awards - Lord of the Universe (1974), The Police Tapes (1977), I Remember Harlem (1982), Pesticide and Pills (1982)

E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company

I. du Pont de Nemours Company was the holding company formed in the early 1900s by T. Coleman du Pont, Alfred I. du Pont and Pierre S. du Pont to save the family business from being bought out by a rival.

François du Pont Duvivier

François du Pont Duvivier was born September 5, 1676 at Sérignac, province of Saintonge, France.

George Edward Holbrook

After a brief leave for government service - as deputy director and then director of the Chemical, Rubber, and Forest Products Bureau of the National Production Authority - Holbrook resumed his prior Du Pont work but also chaired Du Pont's Corporate Committee for Educational Fellowships and Grants.

John Eleuthère du Pont

The petition claims that during that period, du Pont asserted alternately that he was Jesus Christ, the Dalai Lama and a Russian Czar.

Du Pont's will bequeathed 80% of his estate to the Bulgarian wrestler Valentin Yordanov, an Olympic champion, and his relatives.

L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges

Usually called Bocuse or Paul Bocuse, L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges is a restaurant in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or near Lyon, France.

Marian Cruger Coffin

Among Coffin's significant commissions during this period were the design of a garden for William Marshall Bullitt's Oxmoor estate in Glenview, Kentucky in 1909, probably due to a recommendation from Henry du Pont.

Massacre of Italians at Aigues-Mortes

Asked if he was, indeed, Vernet from Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, he replied "Certainly, but I'm a telegram postman in Grenoble and I have never set foot in the saltpans. I know another Vernet in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont and it's my uncle, a man of fifty years, a cultivater who has never left the land."

Pat Meehan

During Meehan's tenure as DA, his staff prosecuted several high-profile cases, including the Du Pont Murder Trial, (a case involving the murder of Olympic wrestler David Schultz by his millionaire benefactor John Eleuthère du Pont) and the 1996 murder of a 22-year-old college student named Aimee Willard (who was abducted from Route 476 and found in an abandoned lot in North Philadelphia).

Pierre S. du Pont

Pierre du Pont resigned the chairmanship of GM in response to GM President Alfred Sloan's dispute with Raskob over Raskob's involvement with the Democratic National Committee.

Tovex

The Tovex family of products, sometimes generically called "water gels," were developed by the old Explosives Department at DuPont (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc.) in the mid-to-late 1960s when pelletized TNT was included in aqueous gels to create a slurry form of ANFO that displayed water-resistant properties in wet bore holes.

Walter W. Bacon

Fort du Pont at Delaware City and Fort Miles at Cape Henlopen became major military installations protecting the shipping routes into the Delaware River.

Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library

The museum was named for the city of Winterthur (in Switzerland), the ancestral home of Jacques Antoine Bidermann, a son-in-law of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, the founder of the du Pont family and fortune in the United States.