What Du Pont did in World War I has been told chiefly by Congressional and journalistic witch hunters. Du Pont, in spite of its protests, was branded a "Merchant of Death."
This time E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. decided to tell its version of what it did in World War II. In a voluminous account last week, it underlined that munitions-making 1) is not its chief business, 2) had not been before the war.
In 1939, production of military explosives employed only 400 workers, accounted for less than 2% of Du Font's total sales. During...
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