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In 1910, DuPont purchased Newburgh, New York's Fabrikoid Company. [3] [6] [7] By the 1920s Fabrikoid was used heavily in both automobile seat covers and the tops of convertible automobiles. [8] Gilbert Rohde conducted some of the early experiments on its uses in upholstery. [citation needed]
Variety (German: Varieté [ˌvaʀi̯eˈte], also known by the alternative titles Jealousy or Vaudeville) is a 1925 German silent drama film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont based on the 1912 novel The Oath of Stephan Huller by Felix Hollaender. [1] The trapeze scenes are set in the Berlin Wintergarten theatre. The camera swings from long shot to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
This Is the Life – one episode (September 9, 1952, premiere) at YouTube; Tom Corbett, Space Cadet – unknown number held by Wade Williams Productions; Twenty Questions – one episode (November 16, 1953) held by DePauw University and at YouTube; The Wendy Barrie Show – one episode at YouTube featuring Jack Shaindlin as guest
Thomson and Thompson (French: Dupont et Dupond [dypɔ̃ e dypɔ̃]) [1] are fictional characters in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. They are two detectives who provide much of the comic relief throughout the series. Hergé twice calls them "brothers" in the original French-language text.
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.