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Du Pont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain. Secaucus NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1984. 968 pages, by Gerard Colby, ISBN 0-8184-0352-7 Thy Will Be Done, the Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil HarperCollins, 1995, Hardcover. 960 pages, by Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett, ISBN 0-06-016764-5 ; HarperCollins: Janice ...
DuPont was founded in 1802 by Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, using capital raised in France and gunpowder machinery imported from France. He started the company at the Eleutherian Mills , on the Brandywine Creek , near Wilmington, Delaware , two years after du Pont and his family left France to escape the French Revolution and religious ...
The du Pont family (English: / d uː ˈ p ɒ n t /) [1] or Du Pont family is a prominent American family descended from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817), a French minor aristocrat. It has been one of the richest families in the United States since the mid-19th century, when it founded its fortune in the gunpowder business.
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Tom Neal as Alfred V. du Pont; Stanley Ridges as Gen. Henry du Pont; Edmon Ryan as Lammot du Pont - the elder; Pierre Watkin as Col. Henry du Pont; Lyle Talbot as Eugene du Pont; David Bruce as A young du Pont; Nana Bryant as Elizabeth du Pont; John Morgan as Francis C. du Pont; Peter Ortiz as Charles I. du Pont; James Millican as Alfred I. du Pont
Ruth Wales was born in the wealthy New York suburb of Hyde Park on June 10, 1889, the only child of Edward Howe Wales and Ruth Holmes Hawks Wales. Her father was a stockbroker, Theodore Roosevelt aide, US Navy Reserve commodore, and philander who preferred to stay in Washington, D.C. Ruth grew up in Hyde Park with her grandmother and mother, to whom she was very close.
Cellophane was a DuPont company that made flexible wrapping material. It had its U.S. production restricted to du Pont by numerous patents in the early 1950s. Du Pont was sued under the Sherman Act for monopolization of the cellophane market by the U.S. Justice Department, and the case (U.S. v. E. I. du Pont [2]) was decided by the Supreme ...
Dupont, also spelled as DuPont, duPont, Du Pont, or du Pont is a French surname meaning "of the bridge", historically indicating that the holder of the surname resided near a bridge. [1] As of 2008 [update] , the name was the fourth most popular surname in Belgium , [ 2 ] and as of 2018 [update] , it was the 26th most popular in France .