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PAGE EIVEPierre du Pont, Dean of Chemical Family, DiesWILMINGTON, Del PierreSamuel du Pont, dean of the famed chemical family and a major fig ure in the development of two of the world’s largest industries, died Monday night He was 84Du Pont was stricken with a severe abdominal pain shortly after dinner at liongwood. his es ^tate at nearby *Kennett 8 q u are, __ . iPaRushed to the Wilmington Memorial Hospital,Du Pont died of what physicians described as an aortic aneurysm(rupture of amain blood vessel)A younger brother lienee, andhis sister. Mrs R R M Carpenter, were at his bedside Thev are DuPont s only immediate survivorsDu Pont, who shunned publicity and seldom made public appear anocs, was a former president and board chairman of F 1 du Pont de Nemours A Co He also served as president of General MotorsCorp for three vesrsDu PontPierre was the great great grandson and namesake of a politicalrefugee who fled to America from France in 1799 His father, Lam-mot du Pont. was a noted inventorand authority on explosives whofounded one of the nation’s firstdynamite plants, the Repauno Chemical Co., near Gibbsfown, N. J He was killed by an explosion of nitroglycerin when Pierre was 14 Pierre then took over the leader ship of the family as the eldest of 11 children.Montgomery Says Front Line 'Safest'LONDON 14*—Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery thinks the safest place to be if a war breaks out is “in the front line with the fighting soldiers”—because he believes both sides will he using atomic weapons from the outset,The hero of FI Ala mein, now NATO’s deputy supreme commander in Europe, explained his view in a radio interview last night ‘ If you're in the forward area,he (the enemy) cannot drop on youexplosions which have a killing effect over a wide area because hewill kill all his own soldiers too.”
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Austin Daily Herald
Austin, Minnesota, US
Tue, Apr 06, 1954
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