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D122684-17
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- 1959-08-29 (Creation)
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E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.; speaker at the fifty year anniversary celebration for the DuPont Wa. plant. The speakers for the ceremony included R. E. Lunn, production manager from Wilmington Delaware, and S.M. Strohecker Jr., sales office manager from Seattle. The company was marking its 50th year in the area making explosives. Over a billion pounds of explosives had been produced at this location since 1909 according to plant manager G.W. Collins. The explosives had been used to create roads and dams, such as the Grand Coulee. The all day celebration featured an open house from 10-2 with informal ceremonies in the morning, a noon luncheon of ham and fish under a circus tent and a tour of the plant in the afternoon. The plant would be shut down and the "powder train," ordinarily used to transport materials, would tour visitors past the storage location of hazardous materials. This was the first time this area had been unveiled to a mass audience. All matches, cigarettes and lighters were confiscated on entrance to the plant. (TNT 8/20/1959, pg. C-11; 8/30/1959, pg. B-3)
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Dupont)--People; Anniversaries--Dupont--1950-1960; E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Dupont)--Commemoration;