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Du Pont The Autobiography of an American Enterprise
Du Pont The Autobiography of an American Enterprise
Hard Cover Part of the front dust jacket is included
138 pages
Copyright 1952
CONTENTS
FOREWORDPAGE 1
E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS COMES TO THE NEW WORLD PAGES 2-9
U. S. in 1800. Trackless wilderness beyond seaboard. Few cities; agriculture predominant. A land undeveloped economically and socially, but, unlike the old world, fresh and vigorous. Unlimited markets for manufactured goods, with freedom to grow.
A NEW BUSINESS ON THE BRANDYWINE PAGES 10-17
Needed, some good American gunpowder. E. I. du Pont, experienced powdermaker, fills a great national requirement. Jefferson encourages him. The mills on the Brandywine and the community around them. A social consciousness a century ahead of itself.
THE COMPANY TAKES ROOT, STARTS TO FLOURISH PAGES 18-22
The treadmill years. Misfortune and financial struggles, but constant growth. Production increases, new mills are added. Early concept of workmen's compensation. Quality of product improved, prices lowered. Responsibility to customers-and to the nation.
DU PONT MARCHES WITH THE NATION PAGES 23-36
Invention and economic development match physical expansion of nation. Du Pont parallels and contributes to U. S. growth. Alfred du Pont, the chemist; General Henry du Pont, the businessman. Research in an old soda house: Lammot du Pont. Civil War.
NEW HORIZONS BEYOND THE BRANDYWINE PAGES 37-52
Nation recovers from war. Social developments. Dynamite and smokeless powder. First Du Pont ventures away from the Brandywine. The U.S. emerges as a world power. New inventions. Expansion dons seven-league boots, with a bootjack from explosives.
DIVERSIFICATION KEYNOTES A NEW DAY PAGES 53-68
Three cousins take over. U. S. matures industrially; mass production. Start of Du Pont research and diversification foretells pattern of future development. Employee benefit plans inaugurated. A changing scene brings new legal concepts, and new direction posts.
Du PONT AND WORLD WAR I PAGES 69-82
War in Europe. Du Pont production helps Allies. Hopewell-world's largest guncotton plant, and a city built overnight. U. S. enters war. Old Hickory. Victory-and a problem to go with it. The General Motors venture, and what it meant to U. S. progress.
AN ALBUM OF LEADERSHIP PAGES 83-88
Five who have served the company as leaders. A color portfolio of Du Pont presidents.
A GENERATION OF PEACE PAGES 89-110
War reveals U. S. as Technological Sahara; Du Pont helps solve problem. Dyes, rayon, cellophane, "Duco" finishes reshape U. S. life. Fundamental research. Du Pont weathers depression. U. S. business attacked; the Nye Committee. Neoprene, nylon and others.
THE COMPANY GOES TO WAR AGAIN PAGES 111-118
U. S. industry answers call to arms. Peacetime products turn to war uses. A huge ordnance plant program. A ton of powder a minute.Training industrial armies of men-and women. Parachutes and materia medica. Atomic energy forecasts a new era to come.
THE POST-WAR EXPANSION PROGRAM PAGES 119-122
New plants and laboratories are built with half a billion dollars in new investment. Du Pont research broadened. Building up a new corps of specialists for problems ahead. New man-made fibers; polyamider and polyesters make jobs and business opportunities.
THE COMPANY TODAY PAGES 123-138
Its present position, its people, its management, its research, its financial policy. How each is guided by principles established long ago on the Brandywine. Predispositions to progress. Problems of the times-taxes, anti-trust actions, incentives, "bigness."
FOREWORD
THIS is a book without an author, just as it is a story without an end.
In the summer of 1802, masons laid the first stones of a small mill on Brandywine Creek, near Wilmington, Delaware. Directing the work, his drawings in hand, was a young refugee from French dictatorship, recently arrived in America. The mill was his stake in the future of his adopted land. From that day forward, the venture was to be known by his name: E. I. du Pont de Nemours.
The century and a half that followed saw both venture and nation expand far beyond the narrow borders that confined each in 1802. This growth has been, in each instance, a matter of cause and effect. Du Pont grew because the growing nation's needs and its free traditions encouraged progress. The nation grew because Du Pont, and a thousand others, were contributing the seeds of growth that germinate in daring, risk and innovation.
Generations of men and women played their in this development from a single powder mill to a company national in significance. Over the years they have shared heartbreaks and despair, as the satisfactions and rewards. But the company that has emerged rests, like nation, on a base finely tempered in the fires of time.
This is not a story to be told by a single pen, secure in the somber perspective of history. It is a story set down over the years, written into the record by the lives of the thousands who have participated, as day followed day. This is their story, as they themselves have enacted it: the autobiography of an American enterprise.
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